Green Means Go—To the Theater

Celebrate Earth Day by seeing “It’s Not Mean To Be Green—The Musical.” Plus, a foreign film fest shines in Bethany, Newark’s Chapel Street Players tackle Neil Simon, the Delaware Children’s Museum opens its doors on the Riverfront, and Dover Days and its famous Maypole set the capital spinning.

Published March 16, 2010 at 10:12 AM

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Big-time Kool Kid Stuff

The highly anticipated Delaware Children’s Museum opens its doors on April 24, and you can bet your flash cards that this $12.5 million, 37,000-square-foot fun zone will rival any kid-related space in the region. Interactive exhibits will build imaginations through math-, science- and technology-based learning, but to children, it will simply be super cool stuff. The Stratosphere is a 24-foot-tall, wheelchair-accessible edifice that looks like the Battlestar Galactica with the fun factor of The Muppets’ USS Swinetrek. In the Bank on It Room, budding stockbrokers can squirm through a pneumatic tube disguised as the drive-through window of the branch office. In Studio D (D for Delaware), children under 5 can get creative while older kids enjoy weaving, printmaking, sculpting and painting. Executive director Julie W. Van Blarcom expects the opening to be one big buzz. “Kids and parents are going to vibrate with joy and enthusiasm,” she says. For more, visit delawarechildrensmuseum.org, or call 654-2340. —Maria Hess