About the Tri-County Performing Arts Center Project (TriPAC)

Please contact Marta Kiesling at Village Productions if you are interested in helping support the TriPAC through the giving of your time, or through the donation of funds or in-kind services and supplies.

The official registration and financial information of Village Productions may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1(800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

The Power of Performing Arts

We invite you to close your eyes and awaken your imagination. You decide to enjoy a night on the town with friends or family. The Performing Arts Center is presenting a comedy or drama, a poetry reading, an evening of music, or a visiting dance troupe. You stop at the latest new restaurant for a bite to eat, browse in the art gallery and antique shops across the street, and then enter the Performing Arts Center for a magical evening of live performance. While there, you enroll yourself and your children in a theater arts workshop with a regional visiting artist … all within a comfortable drive of your home.

The performing arts enliven not only individuals, but whole communities by providing a catalyst for economic and social revitalization: a common “destination” for people with diverse backgrounds, educational opportunities for all ages, and an outlet for creative expression and personal growth. This is the power of a Performing Arts Center.

About the TriPAC Project

Village Productions is working with area leadership to develop a Performing Arts Center in downtown Historic Pottstown. The Tri-County Performing Arts Center (TriPAC) will provide space for educational activities, internally produced events, presentation of visiting artists’ work, and rentals. Offerings will include concerts and theater events, children's and adults' programming in theater, music, and dance, individual and group lessons, workshops, master classes, apprentice and intern programs, and visiting artists. Click here for information about our Spotlight on the Future Capital Campaign.

The site for the TriPAC is 245 High Street, a building ideally suited for this purpose in terms of structure, size, and location. The building renovation is intended to create flexible performance and educational space appropriate for the three main areas of the performing arts: theater, dance, and music. We anticipate a 3-phase construction period (each phase lasting approximately 1 year), with access to the lobby and main stage after the first year. The main floor of the TriPAC will include a main stage “black box” theater space (approximately 150–180 seats), along with lobby area, retail and concession space, and box office.

A black box theater is a simple, unadorned performance space with black walls, a flat floor, and a pipe grid on the ceiling for suspending lighting instruments and other technical elements. Seating is on platforms or scaffolding that can be easily changed based on the needs of the work. Black box theaters are ideal for intimate works focusing on the human elements of performance, rather than extravagant performances focusing on complex technical effects.

The second floor will include 3 contiguous rehearsal rooms with flexible room dividers that convert to a second stage area, or reception and performance areas, as needed. Also included on this floor will be several individual instructional studios, administrative offices, and a restroom, conference room, and warming kitchen.

The lower level of the TriPAC will include individual instructional studios, the main restrooms for the performing arts center, costume shop, prop room, scene shop, green room, and variously sized dressing rooms to accommodate multiple simultaneous performances within the facility.

Why Pottstown?