Mary Adair Trumbly, the Executive Director of the Performing Arts Center (PAC) for the past 13 years, has announced plans to retire at the end of 2024. The PAC board of directors has begun the […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present Artrageous, a fusion of performing and visual arts at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 22. Artrageous combines music, singing, dancing, puppetry, and painting, all on stage at one time. Artrageous […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present NC comedian, Kelly Swanson in Who Hijacked My Fairy Tale on Saturday, Aug. 26 at 7:30 pm. Swanson is an award-winning storyteller, comedian, motivational speaker, Huffington Post Contributor, and cast member of The Fashion […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center and the Mountain Theatre Company announce the reinstatement of movies in Highlands. Movies will be shown in the Martin Lipscomb Theater. MTC will transfer the movie projector over to the PAC. In order to be certified […]
More than $160,150 invested since July 1, 2022 Visit Highlands, NC recently announced its latest round of grants and a sponsorship – $72,150 to support three local, nonprofit organizations. Each year, Visit Highlands, NC supports […]
The public was invited to the Performing Arts Center’s open house and ribbon cutting on Sept. 18 to see all the bells and whistles required of a first class, 21st century performance center. Below is […]
Highlands Performing Arts Center and The Bascom: Center for Visual Arts brings back Great Art On Screen today at the PAC. Great Art on Screen is a series of 90-minute documentaries shown at the PAC […]
Construction at the Highlands Performing Arts Center is coming along as scheduled and crews are currently busy installing the structural-precast concrete slabs that will make up the walls to house the new 300-seat theater. Pictured […]
Excitement was in the air last week at the groundbreaking ceremony kicking off the construction for phase two of renovations at the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center. Phase two entails building a new theater, phase […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center has been working over a year with a construction management team composed of project manager JLL, architect Lord Aeck Sargent, and contractor Choate Construction to design the PAC’s new theater. […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present An Evening of Broadway with countertenor Terry Barber with Grace Field. With an extraordinarily broad vocal range and natural fluency in many musical styles, he has been featured […]
The folks at the Highlands Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center have been working with town staff to come up with a way to orchestrate holiday festivities during the COVID pandemic. Though events planned for […]
Costume clad movie-goers spent Halloween evening trick or treating at the Highlands Performing Arts Center, followed by a showing of of the spooky classic Hocus Pocus at Ray’s Drive Up. The annual Halloween celebration on […]
The expansion project at the Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center in Highlands has been scaled down to something equally exciting but with a decreased price tag. “After working very hard on an outstanding design, in […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center and the Highlands Playhouse are bringing outdoor entertainment to Highlands with a drive-in movie theater. Ray’s Drive-in will hold it’s first event for the public on Thursday, Oct. 1 showing […]