Mountain Theatre Company | The Burnt Part Boys at Highlands PAC
2024-10-18 15:00, 2024-10-18 19:30, 2024-10-19 15:00, 2024-10-19 19:30, 2024-10-20 15:00, 2024-10-23 15:00, 2024-10-24 15:00, 2024-10-24 19:30 (America/New_York) and 4 more dates | Highlands PAC, 507 Chestnut Street, Highlands, NC, 28741, United States
Siblings from a mining town learn the power of self-reliance in this Appalachian, bluegrass-inspired journey.
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This musical, which took New York audiences and critics by storm in 2010, is one of the most imaginative and heart-felt original musicals in recent memory. Set in an Appalachian mining town that was the scene of a tragic disaster many years before, Pete is fighting to claim his past. His older brother Jake is hoping to forge a future. With their friends, they each embark on a life-altering journey to the mine that took their father’s life. By turns magical, inspiring, raucous, and playful – the story is set to a driving and haunting mid-century bluegrass-inspired score. The Burnt Part Boys is an empowering and thrilling theatrical experience for all ages. This heartwarming adventure will capture your heart as it finds the peaks of light and valleys of darkness within us all.

MET: Grounded at Highlands PAC
2024-10-19 13:00
Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant Grounded Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons.
Canadian mezzosoprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action.
Met Music Director Yannick Ne´zet-Se´guin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera.

MET | Tosca at Highlands PAC
2024-11-23 13:00
Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas on November 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Mark O’Connor's An Appalachian Christmas Featuring Maggie O'Connor at Highlands PAC
2024-11-29 19:30
Grammy-winning composer and fiddler Mark O’Connor has created arrangements of Christmas classics with a wondrous mix of instrumental and vocal music in bluegrass and other American music genres.
Concertgoers are treated to a fresh take on traditional songs with a few original compositions as well. O’Connor and his ensemble have a dynamic energy on stage that brings their individual expertise to holiday themes and classics in the most delightful and musically satisfying way.
For more information contact ltrevathan@highlandsperformingarts.com or call 828-526-9047.

Mountain Theatre Company presents Home for the Holidays at Highlands PAC
2024-12-06 19:00, 2024-12-07 19:00, 2024-12-08 14:00, 2024-12-13 19:00, 2024-12-14 19:00, 2024-12-15 14:00, 2024-12-20 19:00, 2024-12-21 19:00 and 1 more date
Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with Mountain Theatre Company at our newest HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR in 2024!
Fun for all ages, this festive original musical, NEW AND UPDATED EVERY YEAR, promises DAZZLING COSTUMES, HIGH-ENERGY CHOREOGRAPHY, and is sure to fill audiences with plenty of GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED HOLIDAY CHEER.
Come see what Mountain Theatre Company has in store this holiday season!

Great Art On Screen | Munch: Love, Ghosts, and Lady Vampires at Highlands PAC
2025-05-08 17:00
Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires strives to shed new light on Edvard Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him.
Now marks a turning point in our knowledge of the artist: the new MUNCH museum which opened in October 2021 in Oslo houses the immense legacy the artist left to his city: 28,000 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, notebooks, sketches, photographs and his experiments with film.
This extraordinary legacy gives us an exceptional insight into the mind, the passions and the art of this genius.

Steep Canyon Rangers at Highlands PAC
2025-05-11 16:00
Hailing from both the Appalachian and Piedmont regions of North Carolina, the Rangers have long held traditional bluegrass paramount while possessing an exceptional ability to bring it down the mountain and to incorporate accessible influence from all walks of the region.
With the band’s last few albums, they have gained recognition from well beyond the world of bluegrass, earning a reputation as some of the most influential songwriters in Americana today.

Social Security at Highlands PAC
2025-05-15 19:00, 2025-05-16 19:00, 2025-05-17 19:00
This hilarious, mildly adult Broadway comedy surrounds a married couple who are art dealers. Their domestic tranquility is shattered upon the arrival of the wife’s goody-goody nerd of a sister, her uptight CPA husband, and her archetypal Jewish mother. They are there to try to save their college-student daughter from the horrors of living only for sex. The comic sparks really begin to fly when the mother hits it off with the elderly minimalist artist who is the art dealers’ best client!

MET | Salome at Highlands PAC
2025-05-17 13:00
Met Music Director Yannick Ne´zet-Se´guin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide.
Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.
