Bergen Performing Arts Center

bergenPAC is recognized as one of the largest and most iconic performing venues and a performing arts school in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan region.

bergenPAC is a theater of and for the community dedicated to enhancing the quality of life through the arts while stimulating a culture of equity within the community and fostering the future talent of tomorrow. Its mission is to make live performing arts and arts education accessible to its diverse community by building a creative home for artists and teachers of excellence who entertain, enlighten, inspire, and inform audiences and students.

The venue became a recognized home for recordings through its partnership with the former Bennett Studios, a state-of-the-art recording studio with whom the theater was fiber-optically linked. Thus, this vintage acoustic hall became the home of a media production system that was unique and unparalleled with Grammy Award-winning recordings. The main stage at bergenPAC hosted several artists performing live worldwide televised productions in collaboration with Sony.

In 2022, bergenPAC completed a historic restoration of the Main Hall, preserving one of America's beloved majestic theaters to its original 1926 architecture and design. Significant upgrades and enhancements include the precision of the hand-painted columns and proscenium restored to their brilliance from the 1900s, new comfortable seating, and a state-of-the-art lighting and sound package.

bergenPAC's campus includes the bergenPAC Performing Arts School, a premiere arts education home to countless students ranging from ages 2 - 18, where no student has ever been turned away due to the inability to pay.