San Angelo Performing Arts Coalition

San Angelo PAC

Address	82 Gillis Street San Angelo, Texas United States
Coordinates	31°27′58″N100°26′21″W / 31.46599°N 100.43923°W / 31.46599; -100.43923
Capacity	Murphey Performance Hall: 1,370 Brooks & Bates Theater:301 San Angelo Health Foundation Black Box:120
Production	Texas Premiere of Amazing Grace
Opened	2016

The San Angelo PAC doing business as the San Angelo Performing Arts Center is a theatrical campus in San Angelo, Texas, including the Stephens Performing Arts Center and Murphey Performance Hall, which opened to the public after renovation in 2016 with Mark Levine as the founding Executive Director. The complex is located downtown just behind city hall.

• The Stephens Performing Arts Center (dedicated on September 8, 2016 ^[1] ) is located in the former Coca-Cola warehouse with a new 301-seat theater space, a black box performance space, 6 ballet studios, a Pilates studio, and scene shops. ^[2] The building also houses Ballet San Angelo and the San Angelo Chorus. From 2017 to 2024, Be Theatre was a resident, non-profit theatre company that occupied a portion of the Stephens PAC and produce an annual season of shows.

• The Elta Joyce Murphey Performance Hall (rededicated on October 3, 2017) is located within City Hall, and was originally constructed in 1928. The San Angelo Symphony, Ballet San Angelo, and the San Angelo Broadway Academy are regular users of the Performance Hall.

The first full performance season (2017/18) encompassing both performance spaces was announced on June 15, 2017. ^[3]

Executive Directors

2021 to present: Yukio Kuniyuki

2021 (interim): Elena Kent

2020-2021: Larry Hettick (Board Member who performed duties during COVID)

2019-2020: Berkeley Puckitt

2019 (interim): Jacob Sanders (Tech Director and Director of Operations, filled in after departure of Mark Levine)

2016-2019: Mark Levine

Performance and other venues

Murphey Performance Hall

This 1356-seat theater is the largest facility on the campus of San Angelo PAC and has been renovated to accommodate both acoustic and amplified performances. Seating is on two levels — orchestra and balcony.

Brooks & Bates Theatre

The Brooks & Bates Theatre seats 300 on one level. The proscenium theater with full backstage features can accommodate nearly any artistic production on a smaller scale.

Black Box Performance Space

Built as a "black box theater," customizable for any event. The Black Box Performance Space was the home of the resident theatre company, Be Theatre until 2024. Since then it has become a venue for local comedy and music shows

References

1. "Performing Arts Center takes center stage" . Retrieved 2016-09-09.
2. "San Angelo Performing Arts Center". sa-pac.com. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
3. "Performing Arts Center announces upcoming 2017-2018 season". San Angelo. Retrieved 2017-07-28.