Directions

Upper Darby Performing Arts Center
601 N. Lansdowne Avenue
Drexel Hill, PA 19026

From New York and New Jersey:

By Car:

• Take N.J. Turnpike to Junction of Pennsylvania Turnpike West.
• Follow PA Turnpike to Mid-County / I-476 Exit #25A.
• Take I-476 South (Chester-Phila) toward Chester. Follow 476 to Exit #9 Broomall / Upper Darby , turn left onto Route 3 East (West Chester Pike).
• Go approx. 2.2 miles and watch for the Kohl’s store in Havertown.
• Bear right at the next light onto Darby Road. (Darby Road becomes Lansdowne Ave.)
• Follow Lansdowne Ave. past 4 traffic lights. The school will be on the left.
• Park in the large lot.
• The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

By Train:

• Take Amtrak to 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.
• Take Market-Frankford Line West to the end of the line (69th Street Terminal - 15 minute ride).
• Take either a Media 101 or Sharon Hill 102 trolley to the Lansdowne Ave. stop. (10 minute ride).
• Walk up the hill (away from the YMCA and towards the High School) past Bonner/Prendergast High School and past Delaware County Memorial Hospital.
• The Performing Arts Center is the next building. Enter near the flagpole.

(5 minute walk).

From Western Pennsylvania:

• Take Turnpike East to Valley Forge Exit #24.
• Take Route 76 east to Route #476 South.
• Take Exit #9. Broomall/Upper Darby, turn left onto Route #3 east.
• Go 2.2 miles and watch for the Kohl’s store in Havertown. Bear right at the next light onto Darby Road(Darby Road becomes Lansdowne Avenue).
• Follow Lansdowne Ave. past 4 traffic lights. The school will be on the left.
• Park in the large lot. The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

From West Chester Area:

• Take West Chester Pike East (Route 3).
• Travel 15 miles and watch for the Kohl’s store in Havertown.
• Bear right at the next light onto Darby Road (Darby Road becomes Lansdowne Avenue).
• Follow Lansdowne Ave. past 4 traffic lights.
• The school will be on the left.
• Park in the large lot.
• The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

From Northeast Philadelphia:

• Take Route 1 South until it crosses Route 3 (at the U-Haul Rental Center, approximately 5 miles from the Schuylkill).
• Turn left at the next light (Lansdowne Ave.).
• Follow Lansdowne Ave. past 3 traffic lights. The school will be on the left. Park in the large lot.
• The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

From Center City Philadelphia:

• Take Walnut Street West to 63rd Street.
• Turn right. Take the first left onto Market Street.
• Follow Market Street past the 69th Street Terminal.
• Follow Route 3 West to the second light (Exxon and KFC).
• Turn left onto State Road.
• At the third light (Mc Donald's on right) turn left.
• At the next traffic light turn left into the parking lot.
• The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

From South Jersey

• Take the Walt Whitman Bridge to the 1st right at toll booth (I-95 south)
• Follow Rt 95 and exit at 476 North.
• Follow directions below.

From Delaware and the South

• Take I-95 North to I-476 North.
• Follow to Exit #5 Springfield/Route 1.
• Go right onto Route 1 north. Follow about 2 miles to fork in road (Sunoco Mini Mart in middle of fork). Route #1 will bear left.
• Stay on right and bear right past Drexeline Shopping Center. You will be on State Road.
• Go 2 more miles to Lansdowne Avenue and turn right.
• Go to the next traffic light and turn left into the parking lot.
• The Performing Arts Center is the building with the flag pole and clock in front of it.

Locally

Upper Darby High School is located on Lansdowne Ave. between Garrett Road and State Road, next to (DCMH) Delaware County Memorial Hospital and across from the Arlington Cemetery.

Stage Door Directions

(for deliveries and equipment set up)
Enter at the traffic light at School Lane.
The driveway to the stage door is in the left corner