ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

STATE THEATRE NEW JERSEY www.statetheatrenj.org

Central New Jersey’s largest non-profit arts presenter, the historic State Theatre New Jersey is a magnificently renovated silent-film palace that flourishes today as a premier non-profit venue of the Northeast. The 1,811-seat theatre presents a diverse lineup. Each year over 200,000 people attend our world-class programming and over 35,000 children participate in our education programs each year.

Built in 1921 and designed by renowned architect Thomas Lamb, the historic State Theatre thrived well into the 1960s. Transformed back into a handsome facility for live performance after a period of neglect, the venue reopened as a non-profit performing arts center in April 1988, and the press and public raved about its visual and acoustical splendors.

State Theatre New Jersey’s mission is to enrich the lives of people of diverse backgrounds across the region and to contribute to a vital urban environment by presenting the finest national and international performing artists; providing arts education to inform, inspire, and build future audiences; and providing a major performing arts venue in central New Jersey that encourages and enables members of the community to have a lifelong association with the performing arts.

Our robust season of mainstage programs features high-caliber performing artists across a variety of genres. Pillars of our programming include four Series: Orchestra, Family, Broadway, and Dance. In addition, we present comedy, rock/pop, orchestral pops with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, jazz, international programming, Performances for Schools, a free Summer Movies Series, and Sensory-Friendly Performances.

State Theatre New Jersey has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, serving as a pillar of renewal and urban vitality across the region. We were profiled in NJTV’s documentary Treasures of New Jersey: State Theatre New Jersey; we have been recognized as a Major Presenting and Service Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; and concert industry publication Venues Today ranked us the #5 theatre in the world (and #1 in NJ) for theaters of 2,000-and-fewer seats, based on gross revenue over the last 15 years.

Our audiences are drawn from nearly all 21 counties of NJ, extending to NY, PA, and as far as Canada, Florida, and England.

George Street Playhouse

www.georgestreetplayhouse.org

George Street Playhouse is a nationallyrecognized professional producing theater company committed to the production of new plays and musicals, and has been represented by numerous productions that have moved to New York, both on and off-Broadway. In addition the Playhouse fills a unique theater and arts-in-education role in our city, state, and greater metropolitan region.

Alpha Art Gallery

www.alfaart.org

The Alpha Art Gallery was established in 2007 in New Brunswick. Its mission is to support emerging and well-established artists through local, national, and international art exhibitions including oil color, water color, mixed media, sculpture, photography, crafts, and glass works.

Zimmerli Art Museum

www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu

The Zimmerli Art Museum is one of America’s largest university art museums. The Zimmerli is a 70,000 square-foot facility on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick. The Zimmerli is a teaching museum with diverse collections and dynamic programs which offer something for everyone.

American Repertory Ballet

www.arballet.org

American Repertory Ballet’s mission is to bring the joy, beauty, artistry and discipline of classical and contemporary dance to New Jersey and nationwide audiences, and to dance students through artistic and educational programs. The organization comprises: the preeminent professional classical and contemporary ballet company in the state; Princeton Ballet School, one of the largest and most continued on page 20 respected non-profit dance schools in the nation; and ARB’s Access & Enrichment initiatives, including the acclaimed DANCE POWER program, the longest, continuously running community and arts partnership in New Jersey.

Crossroads Theatre Company

www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org

Crossroads Theatre Company, recipient of the “Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in the United States,” is the nation’s premier African American theater. Since its founding in 1978, Crossroads has produced over 100 works, many of which were premier productions by the world’s leading African and African American artists. Crossroads has filled an otherwise empty space on the cultural canvas with a collective body of work that remains unparalleled by any other theater in the nation. Crossroads continues to embrace its responsibility to put forth realistic, multi-dimensional images of Black people, and remains committed to spreading the truth far beyond its New Brunswick home to reach other New Jersey communities as well as national and international audiences.

The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center

nbpac.org

(NBPAC) is a transformational project that has propelled New Brunswick’s Downtown Cultural Arts District into the spotlight as the region’s most exciting and dynamic performing arts center. NBPAC features two state-of-the-art theatrical venues in the Elizabeth Ross Johnson and Arthur Laurents Theaters, dedicated rehearsal studios, collaborative work spaces for arts organizations across the region, as well as 207 residential rental apartments and public parking. With an investment of more than $170 million, the public-private partnership between DEVCO, the City of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, Pennrose, NJEDA, New Brunswick Cultural Center, Rutgers University, and New Brunswick Parking Authority is one of the most significant urban development initiatives in New Jersey.

Rutgers University Mason Gross School Of The Arts

www.masongross.rutgers.edu

Mason Gross School of the Arts is a vibrant community of artists and scholars committed to pursuing excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Its mission is to create socially relevant art, foster diverse programming and curricula, cultivate community partnerships, and advance the arts through teaching, creative activity, advocacy, and research that contributes to the public good.

Comprising 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students across programs in music, theater, dance, filmmaking, and art and design, Mason Gross is housed within Rutgers-New Brunswick, a premier Big Ten research university that serves some 50,000 students and is the flagship campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The nation’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning, Rutgers reflects the diversity of New Jersey, which is one of the most diverse states in the nation. The Rutgers-New Brunswick campus is located less than an hour by train or car to New York City and the beautiful beaches of the Jersey Shore and is just over an hour to Philadelphia.