
The Big Bear Lake Performing Arts Center is a 400-seat, state-of-the-art theater. The Performing Arts Center promotes and encourages performing arts, including events and programs designed to take advantage of the full range and flexibility of the Center. It also develops community outreach programs and unique opportunities for individual performers, as well as for broad segments of the community through their direct involvement in community theater presentations.

Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical musical follows Jon, a struggling composer in 1990s New York City, as he races against time to finish his groundbreaking musical before his 30th birthday. Caught between artistic ambition, financial pressure, and the fear of selling out, he navigates love, friendship, and loss while asking what it truly costs to chase a dream. The show is both a love letter to the creative life and a poignant portrait of the man who would go on to write Rent.