‘Twas one month before Nutcracker, when all through the PAC Everybody was stirring and mostly on track; The dancers were stretching their bodies with care, Their pointe shoes and dance bags strewn everywhere. Their parents and siblings were as deers…

Charles Dickens considered A Christmas Carol to be a “Ghost Story of Christmas,” which seems all the more appropriate with the PAC’s radio drama production of Dickens’ Christmas Carol following close on the heels of Halloween. It also brings to mind an early Christmas…

Jim Henson and John Lovins With any luck, we all have a mentor or two in our lives that we can attempt to emulate as we fumble our way through life. Often it is through “one on one” tutelage.  My…

This fall finds me onstage singing and dancing for the first time since playing Thenardier in Les Miserables back in 2013.  Well, there was that matinee during The Little Mermaid (2016) when I had to almost literally jump in as…

Hello, friends!  Aaron Taylor here.  By day, I’m the Technical Director here at The PAC.  For the next few weeks, I also have a new, exciting, more-than-part-time job: Director of our PAC Pro-Am Production of Young Frankenstein.  For me, taking…

The Auditions Are Coming!  Imagine that you arrive to a job interview only to discover a room full of other applicants just as qualified if not more so for the job as you.  Now imagine that in addition to your…

Backstage at Galveston Island Outdoor Musicals during Hello Dolly with fellow chorus member, Lana Olsen back in 1986. Hello, “Dolly” ! As recitals retreat, rehearsals rev up for Youth Theatre and their summer production of Hello, Dolly!  “Dolly” holds a…

“All the world’s a stage” and the arts are our most vital means of connecting to the rest of that world.  By sharing the best that we have to offer through music, dance, performing and visual art, others learn about…

If you’ve ever doubted what today’s youth can accomplish, you need look no further than what 50-60 elementary and middle school students can accomplish in one week when Missoula Children’s Theatre makes their annual April pilgrimage to the PAC. MCT…

  This Play is Cursed Some believe that the play Macbeth is cursed – insert scary music – and that it’s bad luck to say the title of the play or quote a line of dialogue from it inside a…