New Jersey Stage Issue 61 | Page 64

SHARE BUTTON The First Five Years of New Jersey Stage magazine by Gary Wien In publishing you rarely get the chance to stop and take a look back at your work. Once a magazine is completed, the work for the next issue begins. It’s a never-ending process and you have to love what you’re doing to keep doing it. Thankfully, we do love our work. We launched New Jersey Stage five years ago in July 2014 and this issue begins our 6th year of publishing. Our goal from day one was to cover the arts in a state that has seen coverage in newspapers greatly diminished over the last two decades. Newspapers learned long ago that covering the arts was not nearly as profitable as other avenues and so when budget cuts had to happen arts coverage was among the first to go. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 61 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 64