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A man gestures passionately on stage while a person hangs upside down in the background under dramatic lighting and falling confetti, creating a surreal atmosphere.
  • Thu Nov 12 – Sun Nov 15

Dead Centre: Deaf Republic

Silence has never been this loud.

  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • International
  • Political Theater
  • Skirball Presents
  • Theater
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A large grid of various book covers, each marked with a small circular icon.
  • Tue Nov 17

2026 National Book Awards Finalist Reading

National Book Foundation & NYU Creative Writing Program

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A performer kneels on a platform with arms open, surrounded by colorful beams of light and mist, creating a dramatic, vibrant stage effect.
  • Fri Nov 20 – Sat Nov 21

Joris Lacoste: Nexus de l’adoration

Nine performers. One stage. A world of voices in motion.

  • Crossing the Line Festival
  • International
  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Skirball Presents
  • Transdisciplinary
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A man in a long gray coat stands alone on an empty, dimly lit pavement at night, surrounded by darkness with faint city lights in the background.
  • Sun Nov 22

National Theatre Live Screening: Golden Boy

Josh O’Connor leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets’ knockout American classic.

  • Special Screening
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Person with tousled brown hair wearing a black collar with an O-ring, looking confidently at the camera against a white background.
  • Wed Jan 13 – Sat Jan 16, 2027

Minor Theater: Pity Whore

No one walks away clean.

  • World Premiere
  • Skirball Presents
  • Theater
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An elegantly dressed woman in a beaded gown and a man in a tuxedo stand together in a doorway.
  • Sun Jan 24, 2027

National Theatre Live Screening: Hay Fever

Emmy and Tony winner Christine Baranski makes her West End debut alongside Academy Award-nominated stage and screen legend Richard E. Grant in Noël Coward’s irresistible comedy.

  • Special Screening
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Six people, some blurred in motion, move around a man in black standing still at the center. The scene is dynamic and intense, with dramatic body language against a dark background.
  • Thu Feb 4 – Sat Feb 6, 2027

Cullberg / Faye Driscoll: flesh chariot, chariot of flesh

Many bodies, one breath.

  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Dance
  • International
  • Skirball Presents
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A film crew records actors in costume on a foggy set, while a giant projection of a girls face with long hair appears in the background, creating a surreal, dramatic scene.
  • Thu Feb 11 – Sat Feb 13, 2027

Milo Rau: Medea’s Children

The children tell it this time.

  • International
  • Documentary Theater
  • Skirball Presents
  • Theater
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Two shirtless men pose in a room with wooden walls, scattered chairs, darts on the wall, and a mounted deer head. One man raises his arms; the other has a long beard and holds flowers. Others stand in the background.
  • Thu Feb 18 – Sat Feb 20, 2027

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life

Small opera. Largest things. Pass the parmesan.

  • Chamber Opera
  • International
  • Skirball Presents
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A person with a red rose behind their ear rests their face on their hand against a pink background. Text reads: “DENNY LOVE Show Love Tour.”.
  • Fri Feb 26, 2027

Denny Love: Show Love Tour

Introducing Denny Love, a Los Angeles–based actor and comedian whose career seamlessly bridges prestige television, live comedy, and viral digital culture.

  • Skirball Access
  • comedy
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Four dancers in flowing white costumes stand on a textured stage, each at a corner, reaching upward. Behind them are large circular frames and a vertical structure at the center, under dramatic lighting.

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Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height

Thomas Looser on Sankai Juku

In many ways, butoh’s body is at once prehuman and posthuman.

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Musicians perform on stage with a conductor, illuminated by candles, in front of a large projected black-and-white image of a miner in work clothes and a headlamp.

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Julia Wolfe, Bang on a Can All-Stars & Trinity Choir: Anthracite Fields

Jillian Porter on “Anthracite Fields”

Coal is no thing of the past.

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A man sits alone on a bench in dim lighting, with soft, out-of-focus circular lights in the foreground creating a dramatic, moody atmosphere.

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Tom at the Farm

María José Zubieta on “Tom at the Farm”

We cannot assume that we have fully understood another culture simply because we have found words to represent it.

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Two black and white photos side by side show the same man at a desk: left labeled “Allemagne 1933,” right labeled “USA 1947.” The backgrounds and desks are different in each photo.

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Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie: Four Walls and a Roof

Zachary Samalin on “Four Walls and a Roof”

Censorship, the political persecution of speech, deprives a culture of its language, exiling its words.

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A black-and-white collage of cluttered bookshelves, labeled storage boxes, files, papers, and a central image of people moving boxes, depicting an organized but crowded archival or storage area.

Archives Onstage: Celebrating María Irene Fornés

Archives Onstage: The LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project

A new collaboration between Archives Onstage and the LGBTQ+ Artists Archive Project.

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A black-and-white contact sheet featuring multiple portraits of the same person with short curly hair, wearing a dark top, posing with serious and neutral expressions in each frame.

Archives Onstage: María Irene Fornés

Celebrate your favorite playwright's favorite playwright, this fall at NYU.

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