The Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed programming for the fourth artistic season at the recently opened performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower \u00a0Manhattan. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Audiences \u00a0will experience programming across theater, dance, music, opera, and special events. The season features world premieres, acclaimed creative talent, award-winning productions, community-building gatherings, \u00a0new creative partnerships, and the return of cherished annual events like A Christmas Carol, \u00a0Motion\/Matter: All-Styles Dance Battle and Family Day.\u00a0
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GIULIA: THE POISON QUEEN OF PALERMO (Musical Theater)\u00a0<\/p>\n
World Premiere \u00a0 Written by and featuring GRAMMY Award winner Jennifer Nettles<\/a> and directed by Tony Award winner \u00a0Mary Zimmerman<\/a> (Metamorphoses), this world premiere musical\u2014inspired by a true story\u2014is laced with \u00a0dangerous secrets and a soaring, soulful contemporary score.\u00a0 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC AND THE SOLDIERS\u2019 CHORUS OF THE U.S. ARMY FIELD BAND: SOUNDS OF REMEMBRANCE (Music)\u00a0<\/p>\n September 11, 2026\u00a0 COME FROM AWAY IN CONCERT: SOUNDS OF REMEMBRANCE (Music)\u00a0<\/p>\n September 13, 2026 \u00a0 Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in \u00a0Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into \u00a0trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. On September 11, 2001 \u00a0the world stopped. On September 12, their stories moved us all.\u00a0<\/p>\n ICONS OF CULTURE (Event)\u00a0<\/p>\n All Icons and dates to be announced soon.\u00a0 A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Theater)\u00a0<\/p>\n November 20, 2026\u2014January 3, 2027 Two visionary Tony Award winners\u2014playwright Jack Thorne<\/a> (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), \u00a0conceiver and director Matthew Warchus<\/a> (Matilda the Musical)\u2014offer a magical interpretation of Charles \u00a0Dickens\u2019 timeless classic. Brimming with merriment, music, and holiday treats, this immersive production \u00a0wraps the audience around the action, inviting the communal holiday spirit in us all. \u00a0<\/p>\n On a bitter Christmas Eve, a cold-hearted miser is visited by four ghosts. Transported to worlds past, \u00a0present, and future, Ebenezer Scrooge witnesses what a lifetime of fear and selfishness has led to and \u00a0sees with fresh eyes the lonely life he has built for himself. Can Ebenezer be saved before it\u2019s too late? \u00a0<\/p>\n Winner of five Tony Awards, this beloved production welcomes theatergoers with dazzling staging, \u00a0moving storytelling, and cherished Christmas carols, including \u201cJoy to the World,\u201d \u201cSilent Night,\u201d and \u201cIt \u00a0Came Upon the Midnight Clear.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n DEMOCRACY CYCLE FESTIVAL (Event)\u00a0<\/p>\n January 16-23, 2027\u00a0 BAYE & ASA\u2019S AT THE ALTAR (Dance)\u00a0<\/p>\n A Democracy Cycle world premiere dance commission. \u00a0 THE PUERTO RICO EXPERIMENT (Music)\u00a0<\/p>\n By Ang\u00e9lica N\u00e9gron \u00a0 Puerto Rican-born composer Ang\u00e9lica Negr\u00f3n and her Brooklyn-based indie electronic band Bal\u00fan \u00a0team up with GRAMMY-winning vocal innovators Roomful of Teeth to create a tropical song \u00a0cycle exploring what it means for a territory without full political representation to be repeatedly \u00a0treated as a laboratory. Created in collaboration with four Puerto Rican poets (Roque Raquel Salas \u00a0Rivera, Nicole Delgado, Mara Pastor, and Ashley P\u00e9rez Garacia) each sonic vignette traces a \u00a0specific incident in the island\u2019s history as a site of experimentation\u2014from mass sterilization \u00a0campaigns and imposing English in public schools, to the U.S. Navy occupation of Vieques and \u00a0UFO sightings in Lajas. \u00a0 Timothy Long<\/a>\u2019S NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS SONGBOOK (Music)\u00a0<\/p>\n January 29, 2027 \u00a0 THE GORGEOUS NOTHINGS (Musical Theater)\u00a0<\/p>\n February 16 \u2013 March 14, 2027\u00a0 THE UNSINKABLE (Theater)\u00a0<\/p>\n February 10 \u2013 March 7, 2027\u00a0 VOX (Opera)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nJune 28 \u2013 July 26, 2026\u00a0
\nWritten by and featuring Grammy Award winner Jennifer Nettles<\/a>\u00a0
\nChoreographed by Austin Mccormick<\/a>\u00a0
\nDirected by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman<\/a>\u00a0
\nThe power lies in her hands, one drop at a time. \u00a0
\nWhat began as a single act of self-defense ripples through Palermo, creating a cascade of casualties and \u00a0inspiring a secret sisterhood. But the path to safety is never safe. Can Giulia Tofana save them all without \u00a0losing herself?\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\nAn iconic orchestra and powerful voices come together for a free musical salute. \u00a0
\nThe New York Philharmonic, led by incoming Tang Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel<\/a>, joins the \u00a0U.S. Army Field Band Soldiers\u2019 Chorus, led by Captain Jac’kel Smalls, for a landmark concert \u00a0commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Honoring the heroes who walk among \u00a0us\u2014from the families of the fallen to those inspired to serve in the years following September 11, 2001\u2014\u00a0
\nwe celebrate their legacy and what it means to answer the call with a program that includes works by \u00a0Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bernstein, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nBook, Music and Lyrics by Irene Sankoff<\/a> & David Hein<\/a> \u00a0
\nA free, one-time-only concert event of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical. \u00a0
\nFormer Broadway and national tour company members of Come From Away reunite in honor of the 25th \u00a0anniversary of 9\/11. This 100-minute open-air concert staging will be performed on the World Trade \u00a0Center campus. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nPAC NYC continues an annual celebration of innovators, creators, and game changers who are shaping \u00a0culture and influencing the way we live, work, and play. Join PAC NYC throughout the season for a series \u00a0of high-profile conversations with the icons of culture who are leading the way and making a distinct mark \u00a0on our society. \u00a0
\nPresented by BNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nA version by Tony Award winner Jack Thorne<\/a>\u00a0
\nConceived and Directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus<\/a>\u00a0
\nThe magic is back! The Old Vic\u2019s acclaimed production of A Christmas Carol makes a joyous return to PAC \u00a0NYC. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nPresented by PAC NYC and Civis Foundation\u00a0
\nThis festival will feature two full productions of Democracy Cycle-commissioned pieces, as well as work in progress, showings of commissions still in development along with panels, gatherings, and networking \u00a0events. Additional festival programs will be announced soon.\u00a0
\nThe Democracy Cycle is a multi-year commitment to the commissioning and development of 25 works \u00a0across theater, opera, dance, and music, which asks artists to explore themes relating to the nature, \u00a0practice, and experience of democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nBy Baye & Asa\u00a0
\nWhat do we worship? How do we worship? Who are the righteous, and who are blasphemers? \u00a0Through propulsive movement and evocative scenic design, At the Altar reckons with the pitfalls \u00a0of extreme idolatry and questions the cost of pedestalizing any one person or idea. This powerful \u00a0new dance work from the acclaimed choreographic duo Baye & Asa invites audiences into a world \u00a0void of absolute truth. It follows the duo in search of deliverance, and interrogates our collective \u00a0struggle for freedom, survival, and salvation. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nwith Bal\u00fan and Roomful of Teeth \u00a0
\nA Democracy Cycle world premiere song cycle commission.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nEqual parts concert, inquiry, and collective dream, The Puerto Rico Experiment creates a space for \u00a0radical listening, embodied remembrance, and imagining new cultural and political possibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nCurated by pianist, conductor, and composer Timothy Long<\/a>\u00a0
\nIn association with the Plimpton Foundation \u00a0
\nA landmark initiative dedicated to commissioning, performing, and championing new works by Indigenous \u00a0composers across the United States and Canada. \u00a0
\nFollowing a much-lauded 2024 premiere at National Sawdust, creator Timothy Long<\/a> brings the latest \u00a0incarnation of the North American Indigenous Songbook to PAC NYC, expanding the scope with new \u00a0commissions, composers and collaborators. \u00a0
\nThe concert features Timothy Long<\/a>, Marion Newman<\/a>, R. Carlos Nakai, and Martha \u00a0Redbone Roots Project, and other commissioned compositions from Native American, First Nations, and \u00a0M\u00e9tis composers. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nA Life Jacket Theatre Company production \u00a0
\nConceived & Written by Travis Lee Russ \u00a0
\nArrangements & Orchestrations by Dan Schlosberg<\/a> \u00a0
\nArrangements by Alejandro Senior \u00a0
\nDirection & Choreography by Danny Mefford<\/a> \u00a0
\nHistory tried to hide them, so they staged a spectacle.\u00a0
\nInspired by true events, The Gorgeous Nothings uncovers the long-buried story of the \u201cFag Ward,\u201d a \u00a0hidden wing of the Men\u2019s Penitentiary on Welfare Island in New York City, where inmates were \u00a0imprisoned in the 1930s for homosexuality. With a score drawn from the Great American Songbook, this \u00a0world premiere musical weaves six inmates\u2019 stories into high-camp numbers from the ward\u2019s annual \u00a0Christmas pageant to expose a secret, fabulous, world that was never supposed to have existed.
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\nBy Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig<\/a>\u00a0
\nDirected by Aya Ogawa<\/a>\u00a0
\nA world premiere theatrical storm of memory, myth, and survival. \u00a0
\nWhen 17-year-old Little Fong is plunged into the freezing Atlantic as the Titanic sinks, survival becomes a \u00a0battle inside his own mind. The Unsinkable is a wildly inventive, darkly funny, and deeply moving odyssey \u00a0inspired by the six Chinese seamen who lived\u2014then were erased from the story of the Titanic\u2019s survivors. \u00a0From Liverpool\u2019s engine rooms and Chinatown streets to Cuban sugarcane fields, and a Chicago nursing \u00a0home in 1986, Little Fong\u2019s memories and desires spring to life through puppetry, cross-Atlantic dance \u00a0traditions, and flourishes of Chinese opera. He fights for dignity and love even as time slips and his life is \u00a0largely forgotten.\u00a0<\/p>\n