Founded in 2001, 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.  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 4th –8th graders (SUMMER STARS), an after school playwriting program for middle schoolers (the ASTORIA PLAYMAKING PROGRAM), bringing live entertainment to various senior centers in Astoria (with VOCAL EASE), and the extremely successful musical theatre training and performance program for Queens residents over 60 years of age:  SENIOR STARS!

At APAC, we try to incorporate  the youth and seniors who we get to know through those specific programs to take part in our mainstage work: as interns, volunteers, or performers.  APAC strives to create innovative and engaging work equaling that of the most established and accomplished off Broadway New York theatre companies.  We have been honored by both the Off Off Broadway Review Awards and the New York Innovative Theatre Awards.  We are committed to keeping our work 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.

 

2007-2008 Season
Summer Stars 2007
A New Generation of Song '07 the future of musical theatre
PROOF
Astoria Playmaking Program
Senior Stars
Triumph of Love

2006-2007 Season (CURRENT)
Summer Stars 2006
A New Generation of Song- the future of musical theatre
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Astoria Playmaking Program
Senior Stars
A New Brain

2005-2006 Season
Summer Stars 2005
Vocal Ease
The Game Plan
Forever Plaid
Each Tomorrow Morning
Push Factor Dance Company
Caruso, His Master’s Voice
Astoria Playmaking Program

2004-2005 Season
Summer Stars 2004
Measure for Measure
Lucky Stiff

2003-2004 Season
Summer Stars 2003
Is There Life After High School?
Love Jokes
As You Like it
In a Manner of Speaking

2002-2003 Season
Butterflies Are Free
‘S Wonderful - A Gershwin Revue
I Hate Hamlet
Nunsense
Invitation to a Mastectomy
If I Could Only Be/Los Suenos Del Cogui
Where’s Teeny?/Donde esta Teeny?
Push Factor Dance Company
Love Jokes
Jeffrey

2001-2002 Season
Opening Doors
A Christmas Carol
Valentine Beware
Bombshells
Caruso-The Man!
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown
Fairy Tale Express
Ikke, Ikke, Nye, Nye, Nye
Sure Thing