The Performing Arts Center, constructed at a cost in excess of $2.5 million and opened in January of 1978, is a totally self contained unit, supported and maintained by the college.
Because Illinois Central College is a tax-supported Community College, the PAC is designed to provide services to both College and non-College groups concerned with planning and presenting successful performing arts events. The PAC plays an important role in providing opportunities for students, faculty, alumni and the community to meet and interact in an atmosphere design to enhance intellectual, social and cultural growth.
The Performing Arts Center is a 492 seat house, with 14 additional, easily accessible seats for handicapped individuals.
The facilities include a dead-hung staging area and main house, light and sound control booths, box office, dance studio (also used as a studio/black box theatre), prop storage, scene shop studio, male and female dressing rooms, a twenty-eight station makeup room, costume storage room and costume construction room.
The PAC currently presents the ICC Guest Artist Series of major-talent acts, ICC Music Program’s performance ensembles, ICC Theatre Program’s play productions (4 per year), concerts by community-related performance groups, non-subscription concerts and performances and rotating visual art displays.
It is the intention of the management of the Performing Arts Center that this information be useful to touring artists as well as to college and community users in providing information concerning the facility and thereby being of use in preparing, in advance, for the best productions possible.
Further details may be obtained by calling the Performing Arts Center at (309) 694-5138 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (309) 694-5138 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.