A Free Come From Away Concert Will Be Part of PAC NYC's 2026-27 Season

The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has announced programming for its fourth artistic season. The upcoming season features world premieres, the return of annual events like A Christmas Carol, and more.

The season will kick off with the previously announced world premiere of Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo (June 28–July 26), written by and starring Grammy Award winner Jennifer Nettles. Directed by Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman and choreographed by Austin McCormick, Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo is inspired by a true story.

Come From Away in Concert: Sounds of Remembrance is a free, one-night-only concert of the Irene Sankoff and David Hein award-winning musical to be held on September 13. Former Broadway and national tour company members of Come From Away will reunite for the open-air concert staging, performed on the World Trade Center campus, in honor of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

Another free concert commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks will be held on September 11. Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic, joined by the US Army Field Band Soldiers’ Chorus, led by Captain Jac’kel Smalls, for a program that includes works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Bernstein, and more.

A Christmas Carol returns November 20-January 3, 2027. This Tony-winning version of Charles Dickens’s classic is by Tony Award winner Jack Thorne, conceived and directed by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus.

The season also includes two more world premieres: the musical The Gorgeous Nothings (February 16, 2027-March 14. 2027), conceived and written by Travis Lee Russ with direction and choreography by Danny Mefford, inspired by true events about a hidden wing of the Men’s Penitentiary on Welfare Island in New York City, where inmates were imprisoned in the 1930s for homosexuality; and The Unsinkable (February 10, 2027-March 7, 2027) by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig and directed by Aya Ogawa, inspired by the six Chinese seamen who lived, and then were erased, from the story of the Titanic’s survivors.

The performing arts center at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan opened in 2023.

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