Program areas at Arden Theatre Company
In our most recently completed 2022/23 season, we presented five mainstage productions and two children's Theatre productions, for a total of 348 performances produced, 235 Theatre professionals employed, and more than 70,000 theatregoers welcomed through our doors. Our mainstage season featured Tennessee williams's the glass menagerie; every brilliant thing, by duncan macmillan & jonny donahoe; clyde's, by lynn nottage; august wilson's radio golf; and the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee, by william finn and rachel sheinkin. For Arden children's Theatre, we produced charlotte's web, adapted by joseph robinette from the novel by e.b. White, and red riding hood, a wildly imaginative and humorous two-actor adaptation of the classic fairy tale by allison gregory. Both of these productions were popular with audiences of all ages and were among our best-selling productions of the season-an indication that our children's Theatre work is continuing to resonate and attract new audience members to the Theatre.
Additionally, we were able to offer our series of one-day Arden drama school workshops and Arden summer camp programming for the first time since the pandemic, serving 215 k-12 students.
Through our arts education program, Arden for all, we were able to offer free tickets to a total of 3,409 students to attend Arden children's Theatre performances. Additionally, we successfully delivered our Arden for all residency programming to 1,620 students in 12 area schools-providing 709 classroom lessons, distributing 3,313 free books, and providing free transportation to and from their schools to the Theatre.