Arden Theatre Company

Founded in 1988, Arden Theatre Company is a professional regional theatre that strives to offer the highest quality theatrical productions and educational programs to the artists, audiences, and students of Greater Philadelphia. Each year, we produce the Mainstage season as well as Arden Children’s Theatre, the city’s first resident children’s theatre. From our productions that reach over 100,000 audience members each year to our educational outreach programs that inspire and empower 6,000 students in schools across our region, the Arden stands out as a haven for shared stories and an important incubator to create new work. In our last season, 2022/23, the Arden produced seven Mainstage and two Arden Children’s Theatre productions, resulting in 348 performances that were seen by more than 70,000 people, continuing to be an essential force behind the vitality of the Old City neighborhood and in Philadelphia’s cultural landscape.