Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festivals returns this weekend, with screenings at locations throughout Ocean Grove and Asbury Park. Over 150 short films will be screened Saturday at Jersey Shore Arts Center, and Sunday at The House of Independents and Porta, both in Asbury Park. The brainchild of Chris J. Cullen, Rich Lello and Brian […]

NENAproductions Theater Project returns next week with the Jersey Shore’s first production of Fun Home, the Tony Award-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic tragicomic memoir. Ben Brantley of The New York Times called Fun Home a rare beauty that pumps fresh air into Broadway and LA Times’ Charles McNulty said the musical has all […]

Hang Onto Your Shorts Film Festivals returns this weekend to locations throughout Ocean Grove and Asbury Park. Over 150 short films will be screened Saturday and Sunday at Jersey Shore Arts Center, The ShowRoom and Porta. The fourth annual event draws a roster of new and established filmmakers and actors, culminating with an award ceremony […]

NENAproductions Theater Project is wrapping up their 2016-17 season with a production of the five-time Tony winning Peter And The Starcatcher at the Jersey Shore Arts Center. Based on the bestselling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and written by Rick Elice with music by Wayne Barker, Peter and the Starcatcher is the prequel […]

Just in time for Halloween – it’s time to Let’s Do The Time Warp Again! Ocean Grove’s NENAproductions Theater Project opens its 14th season with a revisit to Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show at Jersey Shore Arts Center, located at 66 S. Main Street. Running 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday through Oct. 22, there […]

In the wake of the news that Jersey Shore Arts Center [JSAC] plans to opt out of renewing a lease agreement with LGBT support nonprofit QSpot, former Neptune Township Mayor Randy Bishop resigned for the art center’s Board of Directors, effective September 12, 2016, QSpot organizers announced late Thursday via a news release. The announcement […]

After years of conducting meetings and events in rented and donated spaces, The Jersey Shore LGBTI Community Center, or QSpot, has found a space of its own in the old Neptune High School Building, now the Jersey Shore Arts Center. “This is our first home, said Maryann Buchanan, QSpot board chair. “We’ve been around since 2005. It’s […]