By Najyha and Isabella The Arden gives away books every year to students who participate in our Arden For All elementary arts education program. At the end of the year,…
Read more“Serving the Score” by Ryan Touhy, Music Director for The Secret Garden “Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see”…
Read moreby Patrick Ressler, Videographer Every night, I have the privilege of watching The Secret Garden up close. Very close. With a video camera, I capture the world beneath the…
Read moreBy Brian Bembridge In 2003 I was introduced to Arden Theatre Company, because we were bringing a show called Hard Times from Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago to the Arden. Lookingglass is…
Read moreBy Bryant Edwards Sometimes sets can be simple, other times we have to create an imaginative fairytale landscape out of recycled materials. But where do these ideas come from? Here’s…
Read moreBy: Jacqueline Matusow, Teacher-Librarian, Media Elementary School I have lots in common with Jon Scieszka (rhymes with Fresca), author of The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. He loves…
Read moreThe process begins months in advance; we started working in November for The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, >help which happens in April, and in January for The Secret…
Read moreBy: Alison Roberts, Arden Costume Supervisor/Costume Designer for Two Trains Running Last April, >find when the Arden announced it was producing Two Trains Running, I was immediately interested. I…
Read moreThe Arden is more than just a theatre. Over the next four months, prostate we’ll be sharing with you more of the work that we do, onstage, >recipe in the…
Read moreOn an unseasonably warm and rainy late Wednesday afternoon in early February a group of timid yet very excited and curious Philadelphia public school teachers arrived at the Arden’s Hamilton…
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