Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Focusing the Vision It’s good to try new things. So for our upcoming production of The Secret Garden, I decided to try my hand at creating a vision board to organize my ideas,…

Planting Seeds for The Secret Garden – Costuming Hello all! I’m Bart’s wife, Allison, and I’m taking over Bart’s Blog to share the beginnings of our costume plans for The PAC’s September ProAm musical, The Secret Garden. For me, the…

What Is Cultural Equity and Why Is It Important at The PAC? Now that The Skin of Our Teeth has closed and our season is winding down, my focus has shifted to The PAC’s cultural equity plan. “What’s that?” you…

Now’s the time to make a resolution and a reservation! As we look back on the year past, we resolve to do better and achieve more. These same aspirations are at the heart of this month’s PAC ProAm dramedy, The…

Trimming the Tree In expectation of the PAC staff and volunteers dropping by next week, Allison and I spent the weekend trimming the trees at home. We don’t do anything extraordinary. It’s not like we have a dozen individually themed…

Credit Where Credit Is Due When someone thanks me for all I do at the PAC, I let them know that I don’t do it alone and that what we accomplish at the PAC wouldn’t happen without tremendous help. So,…

When it comes to celebrating success, I fail. When was the last time I took time to acknowledge (let alone celebrate) my accomplishments or the successes of those with whom I work? As a Director, I spend much of my…

The PAC Transforms For A Truly Enchanted Production! As I shared in my last blog, this year’s ProAm Musical Beauty & the Beast is about the transformative power of love. This particular production owes a great deal to the transformative powers…

The Power of Love “What is beauty? Is beauty what we look like? Is beauty our heart, our soul our personality? This musical is about love’s ability to transform us and allow us to look past our differences and see…

Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty. Although my job is very creative, I delegate most of the hands-on work to others. Every summer, though, I get my hands dirty by helping build the sets and props for Youth…