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,_Newark,_New_Jersey.jpg) New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey | |
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| Address | 1 Center Street Newark, New Jersey United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°44′25″N 74°10′05″W / 40.7401467°N 74.1679199°W |
| Public transit | NJPAC Station Newark Penn Station |
| Type | Performing arts center |
| Capacity | Prudential Hall: 2,800 Victoria Theatre: 514 The Chase Room: 350 Horizon Theater: 88 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 1997 |
| Architect | Barton Myers |
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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in Downtown Newark in Newark, New Jersey, is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States.[1] Home to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO), more than nine million visitors (including more than one million children) have visited the center since it opened in October 1997 on the site of the former Military Park Hotel.[2]
NJPAC has been an important component in revitalization of New Jersey's largest city.[3][4] Located just west of the Passaic River waterfront, the Center lies in the heart of the city's cultural district around Military Park and Washington Park that also includes The Newark Museum, New Jersey Historical Society, and the Newark Public Library. The Prudential Center is just to the south.
Philip S. Thomas was named Vice President of Arts Education in 1992. NJPAC has one of the largest arts education programs offered by a performing arts center in the nation. The program includes arts training classes, scholarships, in-school residencies, professional development, and family and children's programming, allowing students, teachers and families to interact with professional artists and explore the various genres of music, theater, dance, poetry and more.
- ^ NJPAC achieves 180 million fundraising goal for nation's sixth largest performing arts center Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine Newjerseynewsroom.com (retrieved November 18, 2009)
- ^ NJPAC. "History - NJPAC". Retrieved 29 June 2016.
- ^ Jacobs, Andrew (May 6, 2007). "Not Hot Just Yet, but Newark Is Starting to Percolate". The New York Times.
- ^ Jacobs, Andrew (November 24, 2000). "A Newly Cool Newark Says, 'C'mon Over!'". The New York Times.
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