Skirball Center Announces Its New Season

Chad Batka for The New York Times John Zorn

A performance of the composer John Zorn’s “Book of Angels,” a festival of works from Chinese artists and a broadcast of “Othello” from London’s National Theater are among the offerings in the 2013-14 season at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.

On Sept. 15, 12 groups of musicians will perform the 316 compositions in Mr. Zorn’s “Book of Angels,” a mix of jazz, rock, classical, world music and other genres. The concert is part of the worldwide Zorn@60 series celebrating this American composer’s 60th birthday. Other musical offerings in the Skirball’s new season include a concert by the Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall (Sept. 24) and the return of the Joshua Light Show (Sept. 20-22), a multimedia musical performance that will feature the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and other guest musicians.

The Skirball Center continues its role as a host for the National Theater Live series, which is broadcast via satellite from London to audiences worldwide, with a screening of Nicholas Hytner’s modern-day “Othello” on Sept. 26. The production stars Adrian Lester in the title role, opposite Rory Kinnear as Iago. Later in the season, the Skirball will show the National Theater’s “Frankenstein” (Oct. 5), directed by Danny Boyle and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, and the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” (Feb. 5). Other theater and dance offerings include a show from the Montreal-based Cirque Éloize (Dec. 18 to Jan. 5), and performances by the Polish American Folk Dance Company (Nov. 23).

Scheduled to run Feb. 20 through May 12 is Visions + Voices: China, the center’s second annual global performance series, which is to focus on Chinese artists. The festival will include works by the Tao Dance Theater (Feb. 20 - 22); adaptations of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” (Feb. 25) and “The Lady From the Sea” (Feb. 26) by the all-female Hangzhou Yue Opera Company; the N.Y.U. Symphony Orchestra in a concert performance of “The Map” (May 12) by the composer Tan Dun; and in its United States debut, the National Theater of China in a production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” (March 26-30).

More information on the season is at nyuskirball.org.