NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Reviews

Always has interesting and indie shows/performances playing at an affordable price.

Good enough place.A little aged but serves it purpose

Great presentation on AI & robotics as part of World Science Festival. Bathroom assignment / labeling ... very interesting.

Great auditorium! Easy to access, easy to check in. Wonderful!

Good for lectures or conferences,although a lecture with 600 students is not optimal

Small but complete. The theater crew is also very professional

Great Hall...and event was also good..nice arrangements..

Ok acoustics. A bit small for tractional concerts, a bit too large for more experimental performing arts.

I haven't had the pleasure of watching a show here yet, but I hear that they are good. However, as a student of NYU, I have been to the top floors of Skirball, which offers an amazing view of 5th Ave., Washington Square Park, and the Empire State Building.

Great venue to watch performances. Highly recommended.

Had my daughter's graduation here wonderful place great seating

Fabulous seating, sight lines, accoustics, lobby, location.

Intimate theater with great lights, sound, and staff.

Amazing theatre space. The lighting and sound is very very good.

Very Organized and a nice place to go visit to see a discussion or anything they are giving.

I really like this venue. Its not too big. Its one of those, every seat is a good seat kind of place.

Loved the venue and the performance, Bill T.Jones Trilogy. Never experienced anything like it. Hope to get to this theater again.

This auditorium is better than some Broadway theatres out there. The staff is great and their invited speakers are always fascinating.

I graduated from High School in this building. It's very nice inside. It's small yet open, I loved it.

This place will be filled with many memories for me.

Only problem is that the seats are kind of uncomfortable

Skirball Center is modern center where you can participate in scientific life

A great venue for many fantastic performances. Buy your tickets early as the good shows always sell out. Pro tip: there aren't any bad seats in the house but the best ones are the center seats in the 4-6th row.

A large, modern space with stadium seating, a raised stage, and screen, the Center has good sound and line of sight for events.

Really nice theater with great views from every seat

Impossible stairs without handrails lots of seniors struggling down and up terrible design..great progrms

Seats are not very comfortable, and rows are very tightly packed together

Great place for new and experimental music, theatre, entertainment. Venue a little cold aesthetically.

A fine theater, well-designed, excellent acoustics, yet the soundman failed terribly with lackluster audio for such a decent compliment of audio monitors/speakers. For lectures/speaking/talks etc., it's superb, yet considering today's standard, multimedia, audio needs - perhaps the current audio system requires some fixes and upgrades to add a touch of fidelity, effects and bass for events which use a lot of either music and/or audio elements.

I'd give it 5 stars, but the audio simply sucked for the 1st part of the event last Monday. I told the sound/audio guys to add fidelity and bass. They listened, happily obliged and the second-half went well (much better,) yet still lacked the heart, punch and fullness it needed... Perhaps it may have been the audio guys....? IDK but they better get on with exceptional AUDIO....!

Lastly, I really loved the interior; it's simply beautiful with an elegant, minimalist, American design and feel...

This is a truly professional theatre with excellent sight lines for the audience. I took away one star because their wine choices at the concession bar was awful.

Awesome venue for any show. The place is a nice size with a grand staircase to go towards the "theater". The bathrooms are clean and spacious too. I approve and look forward to coming to more shows at this center!

Saw an NT Live here. Great theater and friendly staffs.

The theater is actualy really spacious. However, be careful about sitting in the back during lecture. YOU WILL FALL ASLEEP. No doubt about it. Get there early and sit near the front. I'm serious.

Went here for a performance of Pilobus and the NYC tech meetup. Good venue with a lot of seats.

I saw the Bloodlines by the Stephen Petronio Company and it was breathtaking. The choreography, the music, the costumes and the performance was outstanding. The staff was helpful and kind. We had the best seats available. It s conveniently placed next to a train station.

Nice, spacious theater next to Washington Square Park. Check the calendar for exciting live events!

Beautiful place but too small to congregate after show. 200 or less. Major construction on street causing traffic headaches

Large venue for the arts..I actually saw an NY Tech conference here. Good alternative shows listed

We watched a dance performance by a group from Europe and the members were mostly Belgian and mature looking but very agile. The cello musician was French. I didn't read anything about the show nor the material. I just saw it because I love anything by Bach. And I wasn't disappointed. It was fantastic, to say the least.

I didn't realize the stage was really that big and wide, since the last time I was here was years ago to watch a play on an entrapped miner, which was not a disappointment too.

I am sure I will be back if there's another show worth watching according to my tastes and preferences. It has been worth venturing here especially when you have a lot of options to choose from in NYC when you like live performances.

Great theatre with a wonderful atmosphere. Enter on the east side of the building next to the box office.

NYU EMBA graduation. What could be negative?...lol

I remember when this building first opened. You can see wear and tear. But great events are happening there!

I saw the Concert for Peace here last weekend and previous to that have been to a Bikram yoga competition here as well. It is a very nice venue spacious and good acoustics and very clean. They have restrooms downstairs and an area outside of them where vendors can set up tables to sell merchandise. It s also very easy to commute to this theatre, I highly recommend it.

Very nice yet very simple theater behind Washington Square Park, where I saw Ailey II this year, just after my 30th birthday. Amazingly, I was able to drive and find free street parking spots that were available. As I was walking, two ladies were around, trying to find supporters for their blood drive - true college/community atmosphere but it was still quiet and calm outside on this Saturday afternoon. Inside, the place was packed without feeling overcrowded. I appreciated that I had elbow room in my seat.

Beautiful and cozy space to watch shows, great location

Ailey Ii dancing was a revelation. We had seats way up front, which was great for seeing, but tough for exiting.

Having seen many shows in this venue, I do not think there is a bad seat in the house. They have a diverse menu of programs. Developed to enhance the university and neighborhood community.

congratulation to the class of 2019 Did a great job this night.

What's not to love about this place? The space is large, accommodating, and as good as, or better, than some Broadway theaters. Their programming is excellent as I've yet to see a bad performance here. Even the unknown shows, like the one currently running, "Hot Brown Honey," are always absolute gems. From a location standpoint it's near public transportation and across from Washington Square Park, which makes for great strolls before or after the show. There are also tons of nearby places for pre or post-show dining. Inside, the seats are spacious and accessible, and the bathrooms are spotless. Their lighting and stage effects rival anything on the Great White Way and they can do any production justice. Best of all, the staff are always helpful and friendly, from the ticket booth people to the ushers. Like I said, what's not to love?

Drinks and tickets too high but good second-rate venue.

I've been here a few times to see talks during the World Science Festival, and also once to see Brian Cox. It's a great venue, not too big, not too small. The staff (not sure if they're students or not) are incredibly friendly and attentive with helping you find your seating area based on your ticket.

Creative selection of excelent shows. Friendly and helpful staff

Seats were excellent, parking a short distance away

Disturbing hall where Antisemitism is revived, revered and celebrated. It is sad to see coming from someone who lost so many family members from pogroms and the Holocaust.

Very nice theater at NYU. We went there in June of 2019 to see a National Dance Institute performance.

Great performance venue with an awesome, well-curated alternative program that spans all genders, ethnicities, nations, and many experimental art forms. It's refreshing to have this kind of avant cultural option in NYC.

Awesome venue. I saw Daniel Tosh live at this venue. Regardless of where you are sitting in the venue you are almost guaranteed to get a great view of what is happening in stage. It s a great location as well very easy to access and get to via the train.

Decent theater. Went for my son s high school graduation