In the months that followed, arts groups continued to submit press releases and materials. In 2008, Wien launched NewJerseyStage.com as a hobby to be an online news resource to continue coverage of the arts. Six years later, he decided to return to covering the arts full-time and redesigned the website to become a digital version of the old Upstage Magazine. On May 1, 2014, New Jersey Stage became a full-time resource covering the arts. On July 15, the first issue of New Jersey Stage digital magazine was released.

One year after New Jersey Stage Magazine was launched, Gary Wien was diagnosed with secondary progressive Multiple Sclerosis. He uses the website and magazine as a way of fighting the disease each day. Over 25,000 articles have been posted since New Jersey Stage became official and 75 issues of the magazine were published until the pandemic of 2020 forced it to go on hiatus. Over 550,000 unique visitors come to the website each year.

The website is primary run by Wien, but it benefits from the work of writers like Danny Coleman, Bob Makin, Charles Paolino, Eric Hillis, Bruce Chadwick, Karen Nowosad, Al Nigrin, and Spotlight Central. All of the writers on the site are volunteers - a group who love the arts. New Jersey Stage aims to bring artists, organizations, and art councils together. In addition to regularly publishing original feature articles, interviews, and columns, we encourage organizations to send us press releases. New Jersey Stage considers itself the Garden State's Arts Newswire and home of original arts journalism.

You can follow New Jersey Stage on social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Threads, and via our RSS feed

Mailing Address:
NewJerseyStage.com
P.O. Box 811
Belmar, NJ 07719

Email: info@newjerseystage.com

 

EVENT PREVIEWS

Examine Your Inner Self with Lori Gottlieb in Ocean County Library Virtual Author Talk on October 22nd

(TOMS RIVER, NJ) -- When psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb's personal world collapsed, she found herself moving from the analyst's seat to the couch. The experience spawned her refreshingly candid Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. You might recognize bits of yourself in her Ocean County Library Virtual Author Talk on Tuesday, October 22, 2024. The event begins at 2:00pm.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

South Jersey's Indigenous Communities Celebrated in New A.C. Arts Garage Exhibit

(ATLANTIC CITY, NJ) -- A new exhibit at the Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University will celebrate two southern New Jersey tribal communities through the display of historical documents, traditional artifacts and contemporary art. "Still Here: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape and Powhatan-Renape Nations of Southern New Jersey" opens October 9 and runs until January 5, 2025.

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Montclair Art Museum presents "Family, Community, Belonging: Works from the Collection"

2024-02-09 to 2025-12-31