Spring 2014 Skirball Schedule Includes Nothing You’re Interested In Seeing

NYU today released the Spring 2014 performances schedule for the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and students are looking forward to the upcoming exciting performances.
“Yeah I don’t know any of those things on the schedule” said CAS senior Matthew Denshaw. “I’ve been here four years and never set foot in Skirball, I just know it as that building next to Kimmel with the chandeliers”.
The schedule is jam packed this semester with must see performances, including an exclusive 3 night run of the Hua-Tran Dance Company, a Vietnamese Quaker dance troupe that features Vietnam’s best dancers that only dance when they feel like it. Another is a one-night only celebration of storytelling by seventeen Latvian monks. The monks will discuss their day-to-day monastery life in their native Latvian tongue. No translator will be provided.
“If you want to experience the arts, you have to come to Skirball this spring” says Head of Skirball’s Marketing Department Shelly Gould. Ms. Gould, who admits she has an eye for entertainment, has been booking Skirball’s acts since it opened in 2003. “As a former NYU student myself, I know what entertainment students want on their Friday and Saturday night. They want to unwind by seeing Shakespeare’s The Tempest performed by an all blind and deaf female cast!”
Skirball, which cost the University $40 million dollars to construct, reflects NYU’s mission to be an international center of scholarship, innovation, and excellence in the cultural and performing arts. The 860-seat theater has not only hosted one, but two season finales of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice.
This semester in particular though, looks to be incredibly appealing for students. “I’m so excited. I wish I was a student at NYU when we had these programs!” says Ms. Gould. “Why go to Miami or Mexico for Spring Break when you can check out Colors! a Chinese celebration of the colors blue, green, orange, and indigo? Just, don’t wear red to the performance. Red will not be celebrated”.
When asked whether his final semester at NYU will finally be the one where he sees a performance at Skirball, Matthew Denshaw is unsure. “Probs not, I mean, I’m a Pre-Med student in CAS. I want to drink and have fun in my free time. I’ll take a rain check on those Latvian monks”.