Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Announces 2010-2011 Season

The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University has announced programming for the 2010-2011 season.

As previously reported, the venue will host The Tricycle Theatre Company’s The Great Game: Afghanistan, in association with the Public Theater, December 1-19.The three-part work explores the culture and history of Afghanistan through the eyes of twelve British and American playwrights and individuals who have been actively involved in the country’s affairs since Western involvement in 1842 to present day.

The Aquila Theatre Company will return to the Skirball, April 20-23, presenting in separate performances, Luigi Pirandello’s surrealist play Six Characters in Search of an Author and Shakespeare’s timeless comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Skirball will also screen several productions as part of National Theatre Live (NT Live). Announced thus far: Complicite’s A Disappearing Number (from Theatre Royal Plymouth), October 14, 7pm; Hamlet, December 13, 7pm; and FELA! January 22, 7pm.

Family-oriented theater shows include Jason and the Argonauts (November 6), Mummenschanz (December 21- January 8), Star Trek Live (February 20), Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical (February 26-27), Shakespeare to Go in Romeo and Juliet (March 5), The Very Hungry Caterpillar and
Other Eric Carle Favorites (April 2), and Barrio Grrrl!: A New Musical (April 16).

Programming will also include Ziggy Marley (September 19), Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society (September 30), PROJECT Trio (October 16), Katzenjammer (October 20), Kristen Schaal and Friends (October 21), 13 Most Beautiful… Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (October 22), ¡Flamenco Gitano! (November 13 and 14), Taiko Master Kenny Endo (November 20), Balé Folclórico da Bahia (January 29and 30), Circa in CiRCA (March 3-6), Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 (March 31- April 2), and Vijay Iyer and Robert Glasper (April 28).

In addition, Skirball will host the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series, with topics to include Treat Terrorists Like Enemy Combatants Not Criminals (September 14); Same-Sex Marriage is a Constitutional Right (October 6); Obama is Right to Bash the Banks (October 26); Atheism is the New Fundamentalism( November 10); and U.S. Airports Should Use Racial and Religious Profiling (November 22).

For more information, visit www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu.