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 […]
Humankind is living in a new world, the world of Covid-19 Chaos, the 2020 version of the Twilight Zone. Everyone misses gathering together to enjoy a meal, a church service, a concert or a play. […]
The August meeting of the Highlands Town Board will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow evening. The town website has the ZOOM meeting access information. I am adding an option to ZOOMING tomorrow, provided the […]
The construction schedule for the Performing Arts Center expansion has not gone as planned. The cost of construction and finding a company willing to take on the project, as well as fundraising hurdles have caused […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center’s Youth Theater recently performed “A Ghostly Slumber Party” that tackled some serious themes from “The Slumber Party” by Luke Osteen, excerpts from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes, and “The […]
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present the Highlands PAC Youth Theater production of A Ghostly Slumber Party on Friday, February 28 at 10 a.m. for the schools performances and again on Saturday, February 29 at 7 p.m. and […]
Jan. 10 K-11 Open House at Summit Charter: Summit Charter School is now enrolling K-11 for the 2020-21 school year! Come walk the beautiful public school campus, tour the classrooms, and meet the faculty. Summit […]
Nov. 5 Let’s go outside and explore! Families with young children are invited to join the Highlands Nature Center’s Education Specialist, Paige Engelbrektsson, every Friday morning from November 1-22 as she combines stories, walks, and […]
At its August meeting, the Macon County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to allocate $60,000 to the renovation and expansion of the Highlands Performing Arts Center (PAC). The allocation will be a two-year commitment from […]