Students, community members and visiting artists share their vision of the world through music, opera, dance and theatre. Throughout the year, enjoy performances by the AACC faculty as well as regional, national and international artists who share their talents and passion for a wide range of styles and traditions.
AACC Dance Company
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6 and 7, 7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Coordinator: Margaret Russell
The AACC Dance Company presents “Clara’s Awakening - The Nutcracker Suite Reimagined.” In this production, Clara returns to the Land of Sweets to discover a transformation of her childhood dream.
Clara’s Awakening is a restaging of Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic. Expect to hear all of your favorite Nutcracker selections while seeing contemporary, jazz, hip-hop and tap interpretations of the choreography and music!
Purchase tickets online. If you have questions, contact the Box Office at 410-777-2457 or boxoffice@zo23.com.
Symphony Orchestra Concert
Friday, Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m.
Robert E. Kauffman Theater
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Director: Anna Binneweg, D.M.
Music is in the air at AACC! The AACC Symphony opens its November concert with a riveting, powerful overture, written in response to the Nazi invasion during the war, by female Polish composer Grazyna Bacewicz. It will be followed by a delightful double concerto for violin and viola by classical composer Carl Stamtiz. The concert closes with Tchaikovsky's timeless and triumphant Fifth Symphony. Don't miss this thought-provoking, moving evening!
Purchase tickets online. If you have questions, contact the Box Office at 410-777-2457 or boxoffice@zo23.com.
Big Band Concert
Saturday, Nov. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Director: Mercedes Beckman
Catch the AACC Big Band in concert Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts. Get ready for the head-bobbing, foot-tapping sounds played by AACC music students under the direction of instructors Mercedes Beckman and Jerry Ascione! It’s an evening you, your friends and family will enjoy.
Tickets are available at the Box Office the day of the event. The Box Office is inside of the Pascal Center.
Tickets:
$20 general admission
$10 faculty/staff, seniors, groups
$5 student with valid ID
Concert Band Concert
Sunday, Nov. 24, 2 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Directors: Paul and Lynda Dembowski
It’s “Eternity in an Hour,” compliments of the AACC Concert Band and AACC Clarinet Choir! During this concert, here on the campus of AACC in the Robert E. Kauffman Theater in the Pascal Center for Performing Arts, travel through time as Directors Paul and Lynda Dembowski lead the way on this musical journey. The concert starts at 2 p.m. It’s an amazing line up featuring:
“Eternity In an Hour” – Nicole Piunno
“This Cruel Moon” – John Mackey
“I Sit Alone in Martin's Church” – Thomas Duffy
“Easter Monday on the White House Lawn” – John Philip Sousa
“Bluebonnet Drift” – Aaron Perrine
“Incidental Suite” – Claude T. Smith
“La Celebracion” – Edna Alejandrea Longoria
Purchase tickets online. If you have questions, contact the Box Office at 410-777-2457 or boxoffice@zo23.com.
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
“An Evening of Holiday Music with Eric Whitacre”
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 7 p.m.
Carnegie Hall
Ticket information to come.
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers
Sunday, Dec. 22, 3 p.m.
Chesapeake Arts Center
Director: Douglas Byerly
Ticket information to come.
AACC Theatre Get-Together
Wednesday, Aug. 28, 6 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Production Manager: Sean Urbantke
AACC Theatre "Twelfth Night" Open Auditions
Thursday and Friday, Aug. 29 and 30, 6 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Director: Madeline Austin
AACC Theatre "Twelfth Night" Callbacks
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 6 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Director: Madeline Austin
AACC Theatre's Open Auditions/Staged Readings "Proof"
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 6 p.m.
Humanities Room 112
Director: Madeline Austin
AACC Theatre's Staged Readings of "Proof"
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28, 8 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 29, 2 p.m.
Humanities Room 112
Director: Madeline Austin
Tickets available via Eventbrite.
AACC Theatre's Submission for Black Box Applications and Scripts (opens)
Wednesday, Oct. 30
Production Manager: Sean Urbantke
The submission portal for new plays will close on midnight, Wednesday November 27, 2024.
Forms at this link.
Directo, Stage Manager, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designer/Technician applications will close midnight on Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Forms at this link.
AACC Theatre’s “Twelfth Night”
Main stage production
Fridays and Saturdays, Nov. 8, 9, 15 and 16, 7:30 p.m.
Sundays, Nov. 10* and 17, 2 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Director: Madeline Austin
*A company talkback follows this performance.
Tickets available via Eventbrite.
AACC Theatre's Guest Artist Series: Michael Gans "Pitching A Screenplay: From Imagination To Reality"
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 4-6 p.m.
Humanities Building Room 112
AACC welcomes Producer, Writer, Director Michael Gans of Scream: The TV Series, Season 2 (MTV); Siren (Hulu/FREEFORM); Make It or Break It (ABC Family) and Recovery Road (FREEFORM).
Michael Gans provides workshop participants with the tools they need to take a creative idea and build it into a compelling producible project. Participants will learn a pitch process that helps to focus any creative idea into a pitch presentation.
ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Can
Preregistration is required.
Box Office: boxoffice@zo23.com
410-777-2457
Parking is free
Tickets available via Eventbrite
AACC Theatre’s Guest Artist Series: Kevin Chamberlin's "Auditioning for Musical Theatre"
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 8-10 p.m.
Humanities Building Room 112
AACC Theatre welcomes three-time Tony-nominated actor Kevin Chamberlin to our campus! Don't miss this exceptional opportunity to watch the expertise and talent of this Broadway star. His credits include: "Dirty Blonde," "Seussical" and "The Addams Family," "The Ritz," "Chicago," "Triumph of Love," "My Favorite Year," "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" and The Wizard in "Wicked." He is a Helen Hayes Award winner for his performance as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in "Guys & Dolls" at The Kennedy Center. His film credits include "In and Out," "The Road to Perdition," "Christmas with the Kranks" and "The Prom." His numerous TV credits are vast, but family audiences will recognize him as the lovable butler, Bertram, on Disney Channel’s long running hit sitcom, "Jessie." Chamberlin will work one-on-one with actors on "Auditioning for Musical Theatre" followed by a Q&A.
ADMISSION: Pay-What-You-Can
Preregistration is required.
Box Office: boxoffice@zo23.com
410-777-2457
Parking is free.
Tickets available via Eventbrite
AACC Theatre's Black Box Applications Submission for Scripts (closes at midnight)
Wednesday, Nov. 27
Production Manager: Sean Urbantke
The submission portal for new plays will close on midnight, Wednesday, November 27, 2024.
Forms at this link.
Director, Stage Manager, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designer/Technician applications will close midnight on Wednesday, December 18, 2024.
Forms at this link.
AACC Theatre's BLACK BOX Portal for Design Applications opens
Wednesday, Dec. 4
Production Manager: Sean Urbantke
AACC Theatre's BLACK BOX Portal for Design Applications closes at midnight
Wednesday, Dec. 18
Production Manager: Sean Urbantke
Forms at this link.
AACC Theatre's Acting Class Final Performances
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 12:45 p.m.
Pascal Center for Performing Arts
Free: Registration is requested; link to come.
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