NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Pl
New York, NY 10012
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New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing arts events for NYU and lower Manhattan. Since opening in 2003, the 860-seat Skirball Center has been an educational and community building resource, providing NYU's first large-scale, professional performance space on campus.

Current Productions

We have no current productions for this theater right now.

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Past Productions

Les Ballets Grandiva

New York City

Closed: April 5, 2004

Connecting the Dots: An Evening with Anna Deavere Smith

New York City

Closed: September 10, 2004

Buwalsky, A Road Opera

New York City

Closed: October 2, 2004

Play

The Playboy of the Western World

New York City

Closed: October 31, 2004

The Ladies of the Corridor

New York City

Closed: November 18, 2004

Concert/Event

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet

New York City

Closed: January 23, 2005

Concert/Event

20th Annual Lunar New Year Festival: Chinese Folk Dance Company

New York City

Closed: February 13, 2005

Concert/Event

Movies 101 at NYU

New York City

Closed: July 23, 2005

Smuin Ballet: Fly Me To The Moon & Dancin’ With Gershwin

New York City

Closed: August 13, 2005

Red Beads

New York City

Closed: September 24, 2005

All God’s Chillun Got Wings

New York City

Closed: October 28, 2005

Concert/Event

The Composer’s Voice: An Evening with Mark Adamo

New York City

Closed: March 6, 2006

Concert/Event

Our Time Theatre Company’s 4th Annual Benefit Gala – A New Beginning

New York City

Closed: June 12, 2006

Concert/Event

MaHa Sanjh

New York City

Closed: July 8, 2006

Concert/Event

I Tango

New York City

Closed: July 27, 2006

Roma Music & Dance of Hungary: Honvéd Ensemble (New York Gypsy Festival)

New York City

Closed: September 30, 2006

Play

Waiting for Godot

New York City

Closed: October 28, 2006

Concert/Event

Seth’s Broadway 101

New York City

Closed: November 6, 2006

Concert/Event

Amahl and The Night Visitors

New York City

Closed: December 9, 2006

Concert/Event

With Glee

New York City

Closed: June 29, 2007

Concert/Event

Broadway Stands Up for Freedom!

New York City

Closed: July 16, 2007

Musical

SLAMMER!

New York City

Closed: August 25, 2007

Musical

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

New York City

Closed: August 25, 2007

Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

New York City

Closed: November 15, 2007

Concert/Event

Rioult Presents: 2008 New York Season

New York City

Closed: June 7, 2008

Concert/Event

The Dirty Sock Funtime Band

New York City

Closed: September 20, 2008

Concert/Event

World Music Institute

New York City

Closed: February 14, 2009

Concert/Event

Russian American Kid’s Circus

New York City

Closed: October 4, 2008

Concert/Event

Women Generals of the Yang Family

New York City

Closed: October 5, 2008

Concert/Event

Shakespeare in the Brave New World

New York City

Closed: October 27, 2008

Concert/Event

King David

New York City

Closed: November 14, 2008

Concert/Event

Aurélia’s Oratorio

New York City

Closed: November 22, 2008

Concert/Event

The Nutcracker

New York City

Closed: December 14, 2008

Comedy

Kevin Johnson, Ventriloquist – "Tongue-in-Cheek, So to Speak"

New York City

Closed: January 10, 2009

Concert/Event

Guillermina Quiroga

New York City

Closed: January 17, 2009

Concert/Event

Hiromi’s Sonicbloom

New York City

Closed: February 5, 2009

Concert/Event

Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck

New York City

Closed: February 7, 2009

Concert/Event

Bill T. Jones 25th Anniversary Retrospective: A Conversation with Collaborators

New York City

Closed: March 10, 2009

Concert/Event

Hyphen

New York City

Closed: March 11, 2009

Concert/Event

The Big Gay Sing: A Sing-a-long Extravaganza!

New York City

Closed: March 27, 2009

Concert/Event

Hot Peas ‘n Butter

New York City

Closed: March 28, 2009

Concert/Event

Jazz Mandolin Project: How Much Land Does a Man Need

New York City

Closed: April 24, 2009

Concert/Event

VOX: Showcasing American Composers

New York City

Closed: May 2, 2009

Concert/Event

Goodnight Moon and the Runaway Bunny

New York City

Closed: May 9, 2009

Concert/Event

Martha Graham Dance Company

New York City

Closed: May 16, 2009

Concert/Event

The Italian Academy Foundation Concert

New York City

Closed: April 14, 2011

Concert/Event

Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series: Don’t Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses

New York City

Closed: May 3, 2011

Concert/Event

VOX 2011

New York City

Closed: May 14, 2011

Concert/Event

The Dark Side of the Universe

New York City

Closed: June 2, 2011

Concert/Event

A Thin Sheet of Reality: the Universe as a Hologram

New York City

Closed: June 3, 2011

Concert/Event

Cool Jobs

New York City

Closed: June 4, 2011

Concert/Event

Beautiful Minds: The Enigma of Genius

New York City

Closed: June 4, 2011

Concert/Event

Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series: Freedom of the Press Does Not Extend to State Secrets

New York City

Closed: June 8, 2011

Concert/Event

Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate Series: It’s Time to End the War on Terror

New York City

Closed: September 7, 2011

Concert/Event

110 Stories

New York City

Closed: September 9, 2011

Concert/Event

Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind

New York City

Closed: September 17, 2011

Play

National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors

New York City

Closed: September 21, 2011

Staff Benda Bilili

New York City

Closed: September 29, 2011

Family/Kids

Dan Zanes and Friends

New York City

Closed: October 2, 2011

Concert/Event

Debate: Grandma’s Benefits Imperil Junior’s Future

New York City

Closed: October 4, 2011

Family/Kids

Treasured Stories by Eric Carle

New York City

Closed: October 16, 2011

Radio and Juliet

New York City

Closed: October 22, 2011

Comedy

Reggie Watts: On Life and Quantum Entanglement

New York City

Closed: October 23, 2011

Play

The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane

New York City

Closed: November 13, 2011

David Murray Plays Nat King Cole en Español

New York City

Closed: November 17, 2011

Family/Kids

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical

New York City

Closed: November 27, 2011

Comedy

Shlemiel the First

New York City

Closed: December 31, 2011

Dance Gotham

New York City

Closed: January 8, 2012

Concert/Event

IQ2 Debates: The U.N. Should Admit Palestine As A Full Member State

New York City

Closed: January 10, 2012

Concert/Event

Past/Forward 2012: A Tisch Dance Alumni Celebration

New York City

Closed: January 27, 2012

Concert/Event

IQ2 Debates: Obesity is the Government’s Business

New York City

Closed: February 7, 2012

Concert/Event

TheatreWorksUSA’s 50th Anniversary Celebration

New York City

Closed: February 12, 2012

Concert/Event

Twinkle Twonkle

New York City

Closed: February 21, 2012

Concert/Event

Spirit of Uganda

New York City

Closed: March 3, 2012

Concert/Event

Street Scene

New York City

Closed: March 8, 2012

Concert/Event

IQ2 Debates: China Does Capitalism Better Than America

New York City

Closed: March 13, 2012

Concert/Event

National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors

New York City

Closed: March 15, 2012

Concert/Event

The Neverending Story

New York City

Closed: March 25, 2012

Concert/Event

MacHomer

New York City

Closed: March 31, 2012

Comedy

Bigger Than Jesus

New York City

Closed: April 7, 2012

Concert/Event

IQ2 Debates: When it Comes to Politics, the Internet is Closing Our Minds

New York City

Closed: April 17, 2012

Concert/Event

The Dragon Child

New York City

Closed: April 22, 2012

National Theatre Live: She Stoops to Conquer

New York City

Closed: April 27, 2012

NYU Symphony Orchestra

New York City

Closed: May 4, 2012

Concert/Event

Dar Williams

New York City

Closed: May 5, 2012

Concert/Event

The 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

New York City

Closed: May 6, 2012

Concert/Event

IQ2 Debates: Ban College Football

New York City

Closed: May 8, 2012

Concert/Event

Fado of Portugal

New York City

Closed: May 12, 2012

Company C Contemporary Ballet

New York City

Closed: May 20, 2012

La MaMa 50 Big Bash

New York City

Closed: June 24, 2012

Concert/Event

Monica Bill Barnes & Company with Ira Glass

New York City

Closed: October 21, 2012

Concert/Event

Audience

New York City

Closed: November 3, 2012

Drama

The Screwtape Letters

New York City

Closed: November 18, 2012

Drama

The Most Happy Fella

New York City

Closed: December 6, 2012

Family/Kids

Mummenschanz

New York City

Closed: January 6, 2013

Play

Not By Bread Alone

New York City

Closed: February 3, 2013

Concert/Event

WUNDERKAMMER

New York City

Closed: March 24, 2013

Musical

West Side Story

New York City

Closed: March 30, 2013

Concert/Event

Bella Gaia: Origin Stories of Japan

New York City

Closed: March 31, 2013

Concert/Event

Music Diffused: International Eam Event

New York City

Closed: April 2, 2013

Comedy

National Theatre Live: People

New York City

Closed: April 5, 2013

Dancing the Gods

New York City

Closed: April 7, 2013

Concert/Event

Exhibition Manet: Portraying Life

New York City

Closed: April 11, 2013

Play

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer

New York City

Closed: April 21, 2013

Concert/Event

Our Time Gala

New York City

Closed: April 22, 2013

Family/Kids

The Gruffalo

New York City

Closed: April 27, 2013

Thirteenth Peking Opera Festival

New York City

Closed: April 28, 2013

Concert/Event

Seventh Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant

New York City

Closed: May 20, 2013

Concert/Event

National Theatre Live: This House

New York City

Closed: May 23, 2013

Concert/Event

A Talk With James Murphy

New York City

Closed: May 27, 2013

Concert/Event

The 31st Annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards

New York City

Closed: June 3, 2013

Concert/Event

National Theatre Live: The Audience

New York City

Closed: June 13, 2013

Exhibition: Munch 150

New York City

Closed: June 27, 2013

Family/Kids

Big Red Chair Family Series

New York City

Closed: December 1, 2013

Benefit/Fundraiser

Stories From the Night Before

New York City

Closed: March 17, 2014

Concert/Event

Broadway Battles Bullying

New York City

Closed: April 14, 2014

Concert/Event

Kidrockers featuring Tennis and LOLAWOLF

New York City

Closed: May 10, 2014

Concert/Event

Tan Dun’s The Map

New York City

Closed: May 12, 2014

Concert/Event

Children’s Festival of Russian Culture

New York City

Closed: May 17, 2014

Concert/Event

Palavra Cantada Em NY

New York City

Closed: May 18, 2014

Concert/Event

Flamenco Gitano

New York City

Closed: June 22, 2014

Benefit/Fundraiser

Broadway Stands Up For Freedom

New York City

Closed: July 21, 2014

Family/Kids

Wild Kratts Live

New York City

Closed: January 19, 2015

Concert/Event

The 30th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

New York City

Closed: May 10, 2015

Concert/Event

A Celebration of Elizabeth Wilson

New York City

Closed: June 29, 2015

Benefit/Fundraiser

Broadway Stands Up For Freedom

New York City

Closed: July 20, 2015

Concert/Event

Gathering for Youth Empowerment

New York City

Closed: September 17, 2015

Play

Waiting For Godot

New York City

Closed: October 17, 2015

Concert/Event

The Minstrel Show Revisited

New York City

Closed: October 31, 2015

Family/Kids

Goodnight Moon + The Runaway Bunny

New York City

Closed: November 1, 2015

Dance

Two World Premieres Ballets

New York City

Closed: November 5, 2015

Dance

BalletCollective

New York City

Closed: November 5, 2015

Dance

Heidi Latsky Dance and Axis Dance Company

New York City

Closed: November 15, 2015

Dance

Pilobolus: Shadowland

New York City

Closed: December 6, 2015

Performance Art

Circus Now!

New York City

Closed: January 16, 2016

Concert/Event

Circus Now

New York City

Closed: January 16, 2016

Family/Kids

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live!

New York City

Closed: February 7, 2016

Family/Kids

TAO

New York City

Closed: February 14, 2016

Family/Kids

Twelfth Night

New York City

Closed: February 20, 2016

Multimedia

K2: Danger and Desire on the Savage Mountain

New York City

Closed: February 23, 2016

Family/Kids

Aakash Odedra Rising

New York City

Closed: March 4, 2016

Family/Kids

Doktor Kaboom: Live Wire! The Electricity Tour

New York City

Closed: March 5, 2016

Comedy

L’Immédiat: A Circus-Theater Spectacular

New York City

Closed: March 13, 2016

Concert/Event

New York City Gay Men’s Chorus: Big Gay Sing 8 – Mind the Gap

New York City

Closed: March 20, 2016

Comedy

And Now Mozart

New York City

Closed: March 26, 2016

Multimedia

Gorongosa Reborn: A Cameraman’s Journal

New York City

Closed: March 29, 2016

Family/Kids

Story Pirates

New York City

Closed: April 10, 2016

Play

Samuel Beckett Trilogy: Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby

New York City

Closed: April 17, 2016

Concert/Event

31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

New York City

Closed: May 1, 2016

Family/Kids

Where The Wild Things Are

New York City

Closed: May 8, 2016

Concert/Event

2016 Fred and Adele Astaire Awards

New York City

Closed: May 16, 2016

Concert/Event

It’s Complicated

New York City

Closed: June 17, 2016

Benefit/Fundraiser

Broadway Stands Up for Freedom

New York City

Closed: July 18, 2016

War of the Worlds

New York City

Closed: October 24, 2016

Dance

What Comes Next

New York City

Closed: October 28, 2016

Family/Kids

Odd Squad: LIVE!

New York City

Closed: October 30, 2016

Benefit/Fundraiser

Tectonic at 25!

New York City

Closed: November 7, 2016

Dance

Pilobolus Dance Theater Presents Two Unique Programs of American Premieres and Classic Works

New York City

Closed: December 4, 2016

Dance

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company & The Royal Ballet School of London

New York City

Closed: February 11, 2017

Comedy

Circus Now!

New York City

Closed: March 5, 2017

Concert/Event

Circus Now

New York City

Closed: March 5, 2017

Concert/Event

Cuisine & Confessions

New York City

Closed: April 16, 2017

Dance

Titicut Follies: The Ballet

New York City

Closed: April 30, 2017

Concert/Event

32nd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards

New York City

Closed: May 7, 2017

Benefit/Fundraiser

Broadway Stands Up for Freedom

New York City

Closed: July 17, 2017

Bad News… I Was There

New York City

Closed: September 8, 2019

Performance Art

The Moles

New York City

Closed: September 14, 2019

Immersive/Interactive

Philippe Quesne: Night of the Moles

New York City

Closed: September 14, 2019

Family/Kids

Philippe Quesne: Afternoon of the Moles

New York City

Closed: September 14, 2019

Drama

Daniel Fish: White Noise

New York City

Closed: September 22, 2019

White Noise

New York City

Closed: September 22, 2019

Comedy

Wild Bore

New York City

Closed: September 28, 2019

Wild Bore

New York City

Closed: September 28, 2019

Dance

John Kelly: Underneath the Skin

New York City

Closed: October 12, 2019

Drama

Underneath the Skin

New York City

Closed: October 12, 2019

Soundlines

New York City

Closed: October 19, 2019

Dance

To Come (Extended)

New York City

Closed: October 26, 2019

to come (extended)

New York City

Closed: October 26, 2019

Performance Art

Legally Blonde: The Musical

New York City

Closed: November 3, 2019

Dance

The Road Awaits Us

New York City

Closed: November 9, 2019

The Road Awaits Us

New York City

Closed: November 9, 2019

Comedy

Elements of Oz

New York City

Closed: December 8, 2019

Elements of Oz

New York City

Closed: December 8, 2019

Concert/Event

New York City Gay Men’s Chorus Holiday Extravaganza

New York City

Closed: December 15, 2019

Play

A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique)

New York City

Closed: February 2, 2020

Dance

Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten

New York City

Closed: February 15, 2020

Performance Art

Apollon

New York City

Closed: February 23, 2020

Performance Art

Eraser Mountain

New York City

Closed: February 29, 2020

Performance Art

Art in Danger, Artists at Risk

New York City

Closed: March 8, 2020

Performance Art

Lobo

New York City

Closed: April 4, 2020

Dance

Holy

New York City

Closed: April 11, 2020

Dance

Hebel

New York City

Closed: April 18, 2020

Immersive/Interactive

The Builders Association’s I AGREE TO THE TERMS

New York City

Closed: April 3, 2022

Multimedia

I Agree to the Terms

New York City

Closed: April 3, 2022

Concert/Event

Beginnings – NYC Gay Men’s Chorus Concert

New York City

Closed: May 8, 2022

Comedy

CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM: TWELFTH NIGHT

New York City

Closed: February 19, 2023

Puppetry

Tao of Glass

Off-Broadway

Closed: April 8, 2023

Concert/Event

RISE: Celebrating the Life of Dr. Maya Angelou

New York City

Closed: June 19, 2023

Dance

Step Afrika!

New York City

Closed: September 17, 2023

Drama

DruidO’Casey: Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy

New York City

Closed: October 14, 2023

Dance

Rone & (LA) HORDE: Room with a View

New York City

Closed: October 21, 2023

Dance

An Evening with (LA)HORDE: with Lucinda Childs & lasseindra Ninja

New York City

Closed: August 26, 2023

Immersive/Interactive

Theater in Quarantine: Nosferatu, a 3D Symphony of Horror

New York City

Closed: October 31, 2023

Dance

Boris Charmatz: Somnole

New York City

Closed: October 29, 2023

Dance

Stephen Petronio Company

New York City

Closed: November 4, 2023

Drama

Seongbukdong Beedoolkee: Medea on Media

New York City

Closed: November 12, 2023

Conversation/Event

When a Priest Marries a Witch

New York City

Closed: November 27, 2023

Dance

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

New York City

Closed: February 24, 2024

Concert/Event

International Contemporary Ensemble

New York City

Closed: March 2, 2024

Drama

Teatro La Re-sentida: Oasis of Impunity

New York City

Closed: March 9, 2024

Dance

Mette Ingvartsen: Moving in Concert

New York City

Closed: March 17, 2024

Dance

Doug Varone and Dancers: To My Arms/Restore

New York City

Closed: March 23, 2024

Dance

Raja Feather Kelly: the feath3r theory (TF3T)’s The Absolute Future

New York City

Closed: April 6, 2024

Drama

Suzanne Bocanegra + Lili Taylor: Honor

New York City

Closed: April 8, 2024

Dance

Beth Gill: Nail Biter

New York City

Closed: April 13, 2024

Concert/Event

Catapult Opera: La Ville Morte

New York City

Closed: April 21, 2024