MISSION

The Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is dedicated to providing high quality theatre and entertainment at an affordable cost for the Astoria/LIC communities and to supporting local youth.   Founded in 2001, APAC is a not-for-profit arts organization that couples professional theatre programming with community outreach efforts.  Each year, APAC brings extended networks of artists, technicians and interns together to produce major musicals, classical, and modern plays.   Committed to bringing new voices to visibility in New York theatre, APAC has held 3 playwriting contests, and produced two staged readings.  Examples from its youth and senior programming portfolio include an annual free summer intensive musical theatre training program for Astoria's 4 ^rd –8^th graders ("Summer Stars"), and bringing live entertainment to various senior centers in Astoria.   APAC strives to create innovative and engaging work equaling that of the most established and accomplished off Broadway New York theatre companies.   The work APAC produces is accessible, in a broad sense:  the programming is varied in order to cultivate a broad audience, produced regularly each season, and affordable –so that theater-going can become a habit--not just a rare treat--for the people who see APAC's shows.