Mission Statement

To create an intimate venue for performing arts, film, and arts education activities to meet the needs of our surrounding Orange County community.

Balboa Performing Arts Theater

The Balboa Performing Arts Theater’s ambition is to collaborate with local arts organizations such as Pacific Symphony, Opera Pacific, Saint Joseph Ballet, and many others – both large and small – to showcase their artists and present their art forms in new ways. The Theater will also provide a home for up and coming musicians, singers, dancers and other performers who reside in Southern California, and it will offer arts education programs for children and adults to enhance the enjoyment and appreciation of all the arts.

The Balboa Performing Arts Theater will also present the best small touring dance, music and theater troupes, as well as independent, foreign and classic films. The venue can be rented by corporations and non-profit organizations for seminars, presentations and productions.

Guided by a Board of Directors and an Executive Director, the Foundation has been working in partnership with the City of Newport Beach, which purchased the structure in 1998. The city is leasing the building at no charge to the Balboa Performing Arts Theater Foundation for 25 years with the requirement that the Foundation rehabilitate the building and operate it as a first class multi-use theater that will benefit and enrich the entire community.

An artistic advisory board comprised of Orange County arts leaders – John Forsyte (President of the Pacific Symphony), Dean Corey (Executive Director of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County), Doug Rankin (President of the Irvine Barclay Theatre), and many others – is helping to guide the artistic mission of the Balboa Performing Arts Theater.