The long-awaited World Trade Center-based performing arts facility will open in September with a highly anticipated slate of diverse programs and accessible prices.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Nearly two decades after a master plan for redeveloping the former site of the World Trade Center was drafted, a cultural facility long promised as part of that plan is set to open in September. The, directed by a blue-chip team of entrepreneurs, philanthropists, organizers and curators, announced details of its inaugural season on Wednesday morning.
Executive Director Khady Kamara, who previously headed New York City's Second Stage Theater, and Artistic Director Bill Rauch, formerly leader of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, will head the facility's artistic leadership. “We have invited some of the most compelling talents in theater, opera, music and dance to work with us and with each other, to create and present new works that bring PAC NYC to life, here in the world capital of performing arts,” Rauch said of the new center's programming initiatives in a media statement.
Some of the marquee names involved in the inaugural season's programming include actor and director Laurence Fishburne, choreographer Bill T. Jones, playwright David Henry Hwang, poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph, dancer/choreographer Jenn Freeman and performance artist Laurie Anderson.
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