NYU Skirball

Kyle Abraham looks back to the music and culture of the ’80s and ’90s, mixing ballet, R&B, and pop into a vivid, movement-driven world full of nostalgia and joy. nyuskirball.org/events/casse...

📼 A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: Cassette Vol. 1
🗓April 16-18
📍 NYU Skirball

Mario Banushi: MAMI | NYU Skirball Center SUPPORT Presented in partnership with Under the Radar Festival® Mark Russell, Founding Director Meropi Peponides & Kaneza Schaal, Co-Directors ArKtype, Festival Producer More information at utrfest.org utrfest.org Under the Radar is the United States’ premier festival of experimental theater and performance art. As a long-time New York City-based platform for cutting-edge work hailing from around the […]

MAMI drifts through a dreamlike space where movement and images bring out the quiet memories of motherhood. Both mysterious and haunting, it affirms Mario Banushi as a compelling new voice on the world stage. nyuskirball.org/events/mami/

👉 Presented in conjunction with Under the Radar Festival

"Stay out of wet places" -- we can't wait for our December Screening of The Fifth Step, starring Jack Lowden and Martin Freeman.

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☕ NT Live: The Fifth Step
🗓 December 14
📍 NYU Skirball

What a Fall! Thank you so much to all of our audiences for going on this wild ride with us, we hope to see you in the spring.

Tonight is your last chance to see Jack Ferver’s MY TOWN! Inspired by Our Town, Wisconsin Death Trip, and the eerie shadows of Ferver’s rural past, this piece shows how the places we leave never really let us go. nyuskirball.org/events/my-to...

📸Greg Kessler

Happy Opening to MY TOWN! Inspired by OUR TOWN, WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, and the eerie shadows of Ferver’s rural past, this piece digs up the ghosts of America’s heartland. nyuskirball.org/events/my-to...

🏘️ Jack Ferver: My Town
🗓 Nov 21–22
📸 Jeremy Jacob

We’re excited to announce the world premiere of Daniel Fish’s Kramer/Fauci for our Spring 2026 season! Available exclusively for NYU Skirball Members until December 5. Don't miss this powerful exploration of art, activism, and public health.

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We were honored to have The New York Times join us for a rehearsal of Jack Ferver's MY TOWN.

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Ferver’s wry, razor-sharp world arrives Friday in MY TOWN, a queer skew on small-town nostalgia.

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The Spring 2026 Season is on sale!

This season delivers daring, boundary-pushing work from genre-defying artists—come leave your comfort zone with us.

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Kyle Abraham looks back to the music and culture of the ’80s and ’90s, mixing ballet, R&B, and pop into a vivid, movement-driven world full of nostalgia and joy.

nyuskirball.org/events/casse...

📼 A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: Cassette Vol. 1
🗓April 16-18
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Carrie Schnieder

Gisèle Pelicot spoke up and started a movement. Created with lawyers, experts, and activists, this work looks directly at power, harm, and the struggle for justice.

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⚖️ Milo Rau & Servane Dècle: The Pelicot Trial
🗓 March 29
📍 Judson Church

Writer Édouard Louis and director Milo Rau create a raw, honest monologue about class, violence, and queer identity. With simple staging and powerful words, The Interrogation asks us to confront how we perform, endure, and transform our own stories. nyuskirball.org/events/the-i...

📸Michiel Devijver

Robyn Orlin’s WE WEAR OUR WHEELS WITH PRIDE honors South Africa’s rickshaw drivers, transforming their artistry and resilience into a vibrant fusion of dance, song, and theater.

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📸Chang Chen-chou

Legendary choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns with EXIT ABOVE, fusing dance and live music in a bold exploration of rhythm and movement.

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📸Anne Van Aerschot
👉Co-presented with Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Jan Martens’ THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0 hits NYU Skirball. Eight dancers, no escape—just raw endurance, repetition, and the brutal beauty of movement pushed to its limit.

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📸 Studio Rios Zertuche

Happy Opening to INFAMOUS OFFSPRING! We're thrilled that Ultima Vez is making its long-awaited NYU Skirball premiere with this audacious and electrifying creation.

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⚡️ Ultima Vez: Infamous Offspring
🗓 Nov 13-15
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Wim Vandekeybus

Narcissister’s VOYAGE INTO INFINITY is a captivating response to the iconic video The Way Things Go, highlighting female-presenting bodies as fascinating agents.

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📸Walter Wlodarczyk
👉 Part of Under the Radar Festival.

Blending dance, surreal imagery, and raw emotion, MAMI is a hypnotic exploration of motherhood, memory, and myth.

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🤱 Mario Banushi: Mami
🗓 Jan 7-10
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Andreas Simopoulos
👉Presented in conjunction with Under the Radar Festival.

A sensation across Europe, INFAMOUS OFFSPRING reveals Wim Vandekeybus at the height of his powers, fusing dance, cinema, and music into a fierce vision of myth for our time.

⚡️ Ultima Vez: Infamous Offspring
🗓 Nov 13-15
📍 NYU Skirball
📸 Flavia Tartaglia, Wim Vandekeybus

Skirball Salon: Staging Horror | NYU Skirball Center This season, several shows in the Skirball lineup engage with horror as a theatrical genre – join us to explore the nuances of horror onstage, with NYU professors Kristin Horton (Gallatin) and Sonia Werner (Experimental Humanities).

What’s the difference between horror and tragedy? Join us tonight at 7 PM for discussions on Phantom of the Opera, Burnt Toast, and Infamous Offspring. Don't miss it!

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Spring 2026 | NYU Skirball Center NYU Skirball, located in the heart of Greenwich Village, is downtown Manhattan’s premiere Cultural Center. Lead by Jay Wegman, Skirball features challenging, provocative and adventurous programing, reflecting the intellectual and counter-culture traditions of the historically bohemian Village.

We’re excited to announce NYU Skirball’s Spring 2026 season, featuring bold new works from artists around the world who use the stage to question, provoke, and connect. This is alive with performances that challenge what theater can be.

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Tonight is your last chance to experience BURNT TOAST!

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🍞 Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
🗓 Nov 5-8
📍 NYU Skirball

Moving through tragicomic moments of violence, sexuality, and loss, Jack Ferver balances MY TOWN with a playfulness and self-awareness that lifts the work into a surreal register.

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🏘️ Jack Ferver: My Town
🗓 Nov 21-22
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Jeremy Jacob

Join us tomorrow for our special LATE NIGHT performance of Burnt Toast! Don't miss this highly anticipated U.S. premiere about love and cannibalism. nyuskirball.org/events/burnt...

🍞 Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
🗓 Nov 5-8
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Simen R Ulvestad

Happy Opening to BURNT TOAST!

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🍞 Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
🗓 Nov 5-8
📍 NYU Skirball

This is our faces when you tell us you don't have your tickets to the almost sold out BURNT TOAST yet.

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🍞 Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
🗓 Nov 5-8
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Alette Schei Rørvik

The Phantom requires your presence one more time! Final performance of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Theater in Quarantine is at 8pm tonight!

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🎭 Theater in Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
🗓 Oct 23-Nov 3

Joshua William Gelb and Normandy Sherwood, co-creators of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA from TiQ, in conversation with J de Leon on horror, magic, liveness, and the ways their work blurs the line between distinctions of onstage and backstage.

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We did some early morning trick or treating...picked up some very cool literature about up and coming international artists and how to get discounted tickets!