Bergen Performing Arts Center, Performing arts center in Englewood, United States.

The Bergen Performing Arts Center is a not-for-profit theater in Englewood, New Jersey, opened as the Englewood Plaza movie house in 1926. Its mainstage auditorium, renovated in the 1990s, keeps the vintage acoustics and hosts around 200 performances a year. The Performing Arts School occupies the former Englewood train station at One Depot Square.

The Englewood Plaza movie theater opened on November 22, 1926, and United Artists bought the building in 1967, keeping it open until 1973. After years vacant, it reopened on October 10, 1976, as the John Harms Center, with pianist Lazar Berman performing at the debut. Two 1990s renovations modernized it while keeping the vintage acoustics; it closed April 14, 2003, and reopened April 30, 2003, as BergenPAC.

The center runs educational programs through its Performing Arts School where local youth develop skills in music, dance, and theater. These courses form part of the community's cultural life and draw families regularly throughout the year.

The theater sits in downtown Englewood, and the Performing Arts School occupies the former Englewood train station at One Depot Square, once Bennett Studios. The mainstage hosts roughly 200 performances a year, so check the calendar before visiting. Classes at the school run year round for ages two months to 21.

The theater opened on November 22, 1926, as the Englewood Plaza movie house and stayed a cinema until United Artists bought it in 1967; it closed in 1973. Organist and teacher John Harms (1906-1981), who had booked North Jersey concerts since 1941, saw his concert-hall plan realized when the vacant Plaza reopened as the John Harms Center on October 10, 1976, with pianist Lazar Berman performing.