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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.