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Applications are open for the Teaching Artist Certificate program
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Rutgers University–Newark (RU-N) will offer a second session of their Teaching Artist Certificate program from June 29…
lineup announced: north to shore 2026
North to Shore returns this June with another extraordinary season of world-class performances, comedy acts, film screenings, community events, and artistic collaborations at venues across…
NORTH TO SHORE returns june 2026
Now the Garden State’s largest arts and music festival, the annual event is produced by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in collaboration with…
Construction begins today on the transformative Lionsgate Newark project in city’s South Ward
Global content leader Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF.A, LGF.B) along with Great Point Studios, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), and the Newark Housing Authority (NHA),…
A Showstopping Evening: NJPAC Spotlight Gala
A SHOWSTOPPING EVENING: Broadway greats Laura Benanti and Norm Lewis to perform at NJPAC’s annual Spotlight Gala Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital…
NJPAC’S CHAMBERS PLAZA REOPENS
The first piece of the Arts Center’s ongoing $336 million redevelopment of its 12-acre campus is now complete
horizon sounds of the city returns!
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s (NJPAC) beloved, free, outdoor concert series, Horizon Sounds of the City, kicks off early this season! This summer, the…
Dodge Poetry@NJPAC returns for second year of poetry programming, workshops and more!
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) kicks off summer with free Dodge Poetry in the Community workshops for teens
NJPAC receives unprecedented grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
$150,000 award facilitates the expansion of New Jersey’s first social prescribing program, ArtsRx, to hundreds of Newark residents
TRANSFORMING NJPAC’S CAMPUS
NJPAC has announced that construction on the redesign of Chambers Plaza — the outdoor space in front of the downtown Newark theater complex — began on April…
NJPAC and Rutgers University–Newark jointly launch Teaching Artist Certificate program
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) and Rutgers University–Newark School of Arts and Sciences (SASN) announce a new Teaching Artist certificate program.
The Festival Only Jersey Can Handle Is Back!
North to Shore, produced by NJPAC, returns this June with an expanded lineup of comedians, musicians, artists, thought leaders, film screenings, panels, and more.
DODGE FOUNDATION AND NJPAC ANNOUNCE MAJOR EXPANSION OF DODGE POETRY
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Dodge Foundation) and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) announced plans for the 2024 Dodge Poetry initiative – a…
NJPAC’s Standing in Solidarity programming moves from the screen to a stage in 2024
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will reimagine its long-running social justice conversation series, Standing in Solidarity, as a series of in-person events in 2024.
Charles F. Lowrey and Carmen Villar Elected NJPAC Board Co-Chairs
Charles F. Lowrey, Chairman and CEO of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU), and Carmen Villar, Vice President of Social Business Innovation for Merck & Co.,…
PHILIP ROTH UNBOUND: Illuminating a Literary Legacy
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the anchor cultural institution for the city of Newark and the state of New Jersey, in collaboration with the…
GREAT POINT STUDIOS AND THE NEW JERSEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER PARTNER WITH LIONSGATE TO OPEN 12 ACRE TV AND FILM COMPLEX IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Newark, NJ (May 17, 2022) – Great Point Studios, a studio investment/management business specializing in film and television infrastructure, and The New Jersey Performing Arts…
NJPAC AND NJ PBS ANNOUNCE A CAST FULL OF BROADWAY’S BRIGHTEST STARS FOR THE RETURN OF AMERICAN SONGBOOK AT NJPAC
Tony Award winners including Aladdin and Hamilton star James Monroe Iglehart, Broadway’s Barnum, Jim Dale, and Broadway and recording star Debbie Gravitte, plus Tony nominee…
New Jersey Performing Arts Center Launches Colton Institute for Research and Training in the Arts
Made possible by $10 million in philanthropic support from Judy and Stewart Colton, The Colton Institute extends NJPAC’s commitment to advancing arts education December 3,…
NJPAC unveils next phase of transformative redevelopment masterplan for Newark campus
Arts Center and Center Street Owners to break ground on the new expansion of arts and education district in 2022 Exciting vision will create a…