Performances & Events
Parlando Choir: Cantanti Coro & Friends
Sing with us! "Cantanti," the Parlando Choir, is open to adults and high school students who love to sing. The choir will rehearse once a week for 7 weeks from April-May, with 2 performance opportunities:
Wed. 4/16, 7pm Commissioned Composer New Works Concert, Dairy Arts Center
Thurs. 5/15, 6:30pm, Third Thursday, Dairy Arts Center.
Click to see all rehearsal dates.
Commissioned Composer Project
This project connects students to the full artistic process-from the idea for a piece from its composition to its debut performance. Students have the opportunity to be the first person ever to perform their particular work, which is an incredibly empowering experience. We hope that anyone who participates in or encounters this project comes away feeling joy, wonder, excitement, and inspiration. We hope students, composers, and audiences walk away feeling hopeful about the future of classical music and inspired to go home and create something themselves!
Our 2025 New Works Concert will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in the Gordon Gamm Theatre at the Dairy Arts Center. Reserve your tickets here!
Hadestown
Our summer high school mainstage production is HADESTOWN: Teen Edition, by Anäis Mitchell, developed with Rachel Chavkin! Join us for performances June 13-15, 2025, in the Grace Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center.
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
Matilda JR.
Our junior mainstage summer show is Matilda Jr. (music & lyrics by Tim Minchin, book by Dennis Kelly). Join us for performances on June 22, 2025, in the Grace Gamm Theater at the Dairy Arts Center!
Matilda has astonishing wit, intelligence... and special powers! She's unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey. Matilda's school life isn't completely smooth sailing, however – the school's mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don't abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils' saving grace!
101 Dalmatians KIDS
Join us for performances of the Disney classic 101 Dalmatians KIDS on July 20, 2025 in the Grace Gamm Theater, brought to you by our youngest Parlando actors!
Pet owners Roger and Anita live happily in London with their Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita, stalwart dogs devoted to raising their puppies. Everything is quiet until Anita's former classmate, the monstrous Cruella De Vil, plots to steal the puppies for her new fur coat. The Dalmatians rally all the dogs of London for a daring rescue of the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen.
Third Thursdays
Every Third Thursday, we’re taking over the Dairy Lobby at 6:30pm! Join us for live music and snacks/drinks from the cafe! This event is totally free and open to all.