New Jersey Performing Arts Center

We’re NJPAC, the anchor cultural institution for the city of Newark and the state of New Jersey.

As a nonprofit arts organization, we enhance and transform lives every day. We delight audiences with world-class performances, nurture students through our comprehensive arts education programs, and engage our community with free cultural events across the city.

We’re also pushing the boundaries of what an Arts Center can do. We’re proud to prioritize inclusion in every aspect of our mission. We welcome the most diverse audiences and artists in the country to our stages and lead public conversations on social justice issues. We foster an equitable workplace. And we harness the power of the arts to benefit the health of our community. Our original productions tour the country and extend our reach to a national audience. And we’re driving the charge to reimagine and revitalize our downtown neighborhood.

Whoever you are, and wherever you’re from, you’ll find a creative home here at NJPAC.

play the part of a lifetime: you.

NJPAC’s education initiative, kicked off before the Newark campus was built, is now one of New Jersey’s largest providers of arts education programs for children, annually reaching almost 100,000 students (from Pre-K to Grade 12), teachers and families. Thousands of New Jersey kids who experience world-class performances on Arts Center stages go on to classes where they can study dance, jazz, acting, musical theater, hip hop arts and culture, and more — either in our Center for Arts Education, or in classes taught by NJPAC teaching artists at schools around the state. NJPAC’s professional development opportunities for teachers — classes and workshops through which classroom teachers strengthen their skills in multiple areas like choreographing a school musical, creating an original play or playing the recorder — have added exponentially to the arts education offerings at Greater Newark schools and surrounding areas.

engage. connect. celebrate.

We like to say that we’re more than a venue—we’re a community. That’s why we’re one of the few performing arts centers in the country with an entire department dedicated to reaching out, building connections and just plain having fun with our neighbors in their own backyards.