Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
566 LaGuardia Place | also 61 Washington Square South, 60 Washington Square South, 65 West 3rd Street | Greenwich Village | built 2000
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- 1970
Street Transvestites for Gay Power protests at NYU's Loeb Student Center after the Weinstein Hall occupation
After NYU cancelled gay dances at Weinstein Hall in September 1970, Sylvia Rivera issued a flyer under the name Street Transvestites for Gay Power, and a group of that name later protested at the university's Loeb Student Center. Its demands included a community center for gay people, access to enrollment for them, and the right to be openly gay without reprisal. NYU then allowed at least one gay dance at Weinstein Hall. Later that year Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson founded STAR, which ran a shelter for transgender youth in the East Village. The Loeb Student Center stood on this lot before the Kimmel Center opened in 2003; the Loeb name now belongs to a student-center space inside Kimmel.
“A group called Street Transvestites for Gay Power later organized protests at NYU's Loeb Student Center and Bellevue Hospital.”
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- 1979
Violinist Billy Bang's sextet records a live album at NYU's Loeb Student Center
Billy Bang led a six-piece group at the Loeb Student Center on November 15, 1979: saxophonists Frank Lowe and Luther Thomas, cornetist Butch Morris, pianist Curtis Clark, bassist Wilber Morris and drummer Steve McCall. The set came out on vinyl that year as Sweet Space on the Anima Productions label, and a 2004 CD reissue added four alternate takes. The Loeb Student Center stood on this lot before the Kimmel Center opened in 2003; the Loeb name now belongs to a student-center space inside Kimmel.
“It was recorded on November 15, 1979, at the Loeb Student Center of New York University in New York City…”
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- 2003
NYU opens the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
New York University completes its 850-seat theater at 566 LaGuardia Place in October 2003. Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo and Associates designed the building, which cost roughly $40 million. It is named for the philanthropist Jack H. Skirball.
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- 2020
Netflix premieres Middleditch and Schwartz, filmed at the Skirball Center
Netflix releases the three-part improvised comedy series starring Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz, which was filmed at NYU's Skirball Center. Each hour-long episode is built on a random audience suggestion and played out entirely without a script.
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