"Enriching. Inspiring. Accessible. Bringing professional performing arts to our community."

Now in our 39th season, P/Arts brings high quality, accessible and affordable professional performing arts to northeast CT. Our flagship programs are our FREE Children’s Educational Opera and Children’s Educational Symphony programs. Through our artistic partners, Salt Marsh Opera Company and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, local schoolchildren are introduced to the creative artistry, discipline, beauty and storyline in productions of the opera and of the orchestra. The students learn about the art form, the narrative and the music through a multi- media study guide provided to teachers. Each participating class is visited by the artists for an in-school workshop prior to the performances. In the spring, the children attend live, fully- staged productions of the opera or the symphony at the Hyde Cultural Center.

The Nutcracker

- Saturday, December 8, 2012
- 2:00 pm
- Ballet Theatre Company of West Hartford

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Bach To The Future

- April 8, 2013
- 10:15 a.m. and Noon
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra

Cinderella

- Tuesday, May 14, 2013
- 10 a.m. and Noon
-Salt Marsh Opera Co.

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This season, we will feature Salt Marsh Opera’s production of Cinderella, with two shows on May 14th, 2013. Our program with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra will feature Daniel Bernard Roumain in a concert fusing Haitian with American culture and contemporary with classical music, with two shows on April 8th, 2013. P/Arts also sponsors family- oriented professional productions available to the general public. This season we are thrilled to present a return of The Nutcracker by Ballet Theatre Company of West Hartford on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 2:00 pm at the Hyde Cultural Center. Under the direction of Artistic Director Roman Baca, this production of a holiday favorite features dancers from New York City as well as rising regional talent. The show was a near sell- out last year. This year we will offer reserved seating.