The Prior Performing Arts Center dismantles the walls we build around ourselves.
With dynamic programming and striking architectural design, The Prior supports arts-based collaboration among faculty and students across academic disciplines; offers technical capabilities to ignite the imaginations of world-class visiting artists and students alike; and provides new avenues for leveraging the positive power of the arts for broad audiences and through civic and community partnerships.
The iconic folk artist Rhiannon Giddens, who has stretched her inimitable brand of folk music into nearly every field imaginable, performs from her first album of entirely original songs, “You’re the One.”
Johnny Gandelsman performs "This Is America," a commissioning and recording project featuring over twenty new works for solo violin written by American and US-based artists.
French dance company Hervé Koubi returns its stunning classic to Holy Cross, allowing audiences to experience its gravity-defying style in the thrilling proximity of our black box theater.
Scene from "Sojourners," a play from nationally acclaimed playwright Mfoniso Udofia, that explores the collision of marriage, migration and the pursuit of education.
The Prior Performing Arts Center will elevate our Jesuit liberal arts tradition—fostering creativity and collaboration, communicating across barriers of language, class and culture, and experiencing together the wonders of beauty, reflection, discovery and discernment.
