Photo Gallery: Visitors Experience Prior Performing Arts Center at Community Day

Faculty, staff, students, alumni and Worcester residents tour the building and enjoy music, dance and theater open rehearsals and performances.

September 26th, 2022 by College of the Holy Cross

Dancers rehearse in the Alden Trust Performance Studio on the third floor. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

Visitors watch a performance from the second floor balcony. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

A flag circle performs in the first-floor Beehive, located at the heart of the building and a space for collaboration, performance and study. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

Costumes from previous Holy Cross theatrical productions were on display throughout the building. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

Students rehearse the upcoming production of “Iphigenia” in the Boroughs Theatre. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

The Mike Monaghan and Friends jazz ensemble performs in the Luth Concert Hall. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

Students take part in a Balinese musical processional that led into the Prior Performing Arts Center. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

A student poses with one of many costumes on display throughout the building. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

A student works on a piece in one of four practice rooms located on the third floor. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

Visitors enjoyed time inside and outside of the building and its grounds. (Photo by Michael Ivins / Holy Cross)

The College of the Holy Cross welcomed members of the campus and local communities to the Prior Performing Arts Center Community Day on Saturday, Sept. 24, giving visitors their first look inside the new $110 million academic building and performance venue.

Faculty, staff, students, alumni and Worcester residents attended the open house-style event, which featured music, dance and theater open rehearsals and performances, as well as the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, “Afterimage: Visual Arts Faculty 2022.”

Visitors got a first-hand look at all three floors of the 84,000 square-foot building, from production spaces and rehearsal rooms to the 400-seat Luth Concert Hall. The building opened to classes at the beginning of the academic year.

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