Daily Archives: May 11, 2025

Arden Theatre Company Extends ‘Rent”

Philadelphia-based Arden Theatre Company is thrilled to close out its 2024-25 season with the electrifying Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical RENT. Following its Broadway debut in 1996, where it earned four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical, RENT redefined musical theatre by taking audiences on an unforgettable journey of love, loss, hope, and resilience. The Arden brings Jonathan Larson’s iconic story to life on the F. Otto Haas Stage, in a powerful new production directed by Terrence J. Nolen and Steve Pacek. The production begins May 15, with opening night May 21. Due to popular demand, RENT has been extended through June 29. 

With its unforgettable score and songs like “Seasons of Love” and “I’ll Cover You,” the production tells the story of a close group of young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create a life in New York City’s East Village during the height of the AIDS crisis.  

The dynamic cast features new and familiar faces to Arden audiences. 

 Tickets are available online at ardentheatre.org or at the box office at Arden Theatre Company (40 N. 2nd Street). . Single ticket prices vary by  performance and start at $65. 

 Note: $20 couch rush tickets, available exclusively through TKTS Philadelphia (at Independence Visitor Center, 599 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA) will be available for the first three weeks of the run.

Native Plant Sale at Brandywine Zoo

Spring Native Plant Sale​

Saturday, May 24, Sunday, May 25 & Monday, May 26; 10am-2pm

Stop by the zoo front gate (zoo admission is not required) to purchase a 6-pack of native plants for $30. Each pack comes with 6, low-water, 5″x2″ plugs of native plant species and an instruction pamphlet with all the information you need for these easy-care plants.

Six-packs will contain:
Goldenrod ‘Solar Cascade’, Beardtongue, False Blue Indigo, New York Aster, Cinderella Milkweed and Common Milkweed

 

If You Go:

Brandywine Zoo, 1001 North Park Drive, Wilmington, Del. 19802. (302) 571-7788.

The zoo is less than five acres and located in Wilmington, Delaware, along the Brandywine River in beautiful Brandywine Park. The Zoo is open 10am to 4pm (last admission at 3:30pm).

Children (3-17 yrs.) $7. Adults (18-61 yrs.) $9. Seniors (62+yrs) $8. The zoo is free to Delaware Zoological Society members with cards and children under 3 years.

The zoo is typically open to visitors 10am – 4pm. https://brandywinezoo.org/