This Fall 2025 at NYU Skirball, we invite you to step into the spaces between…between memory and myth, presence and absence, structure and chaos…with artists who defy boundaries and performances that embrace the unknown.

SEP 19-20 | WORLD PREMIERE

RASHAUN MITCHELL + SILAS RIENER: OPEN MACHINE

A new work by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener that explores the thinking body and collective uncertainty. Through structured improvisation, dancers navigate public and private spaces, accompanied by a sound score from Mas Ysa and digital projections by Jesse Stiles. Blending choreography, technology, and urban environments, the piece begins in the city and ends onstage, reimagining live performance in a tech-driven world.

SEP 25-27 | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

RIMINI PROTOKOLL: ALL RIGHT. GOOD NIGHT.

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished mid-flight — an event that remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Acclaimed director Helgard Haug interweaves this unfathomable disappearance with a deeply personal story: her father’s slow fading into dementia. Through documentary storytelling and an evocative live score the production transforms loss into an immersive theatrical experience.

OCT 4 | NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE

PATRICK BLENKARN + MILTON LIM: ASSES.MASSES

Cheeky, political, and best described as Animal Farm meets Pokémon meets Final Fantasyasses.masses puts the control(ler) in its audience’s hands and asks them to discover the space between the work that defines us and the play that frees us.

OCT 8-19 | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

STEPHEN REA: KRAPP’S LAST TAPE

Legendary Irish actor Stephen Rea takes on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in a revelatory new production directed by Vicky Featherstone. Direct from its acclaimed run at London’s Barbican, this gripping solo performance explores memory, regret, and the passage of time with Beckett’s signature wit and stark poetry.

OCT 23-NOV 3 | WORLD PREMIERE

THEATER IN QUARANTINE: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Just in time for Halloween, Theater In Quarantine returns with Phantom of the Opera, a live, remote world premiere inspired by the 1925 silent horror film. Broadcast from miniature stages in an East Village apartment, this gothic digital performance distills the story to its core: an artist-as-saboteur trapped in a tradition-bound system.

NOV 5-8 | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

SUSIE WANG: BURNT TOAST

Norwegian theater company Susie Wang makes its highly anticipated U.S. premiere with Burnt Toast, a surreal and darkly comic thriller that blends horror, humor, and the uncanny. Set in a crimson-hued hotel lobby in the American South, the play follows a mysterious man with a silver briefcase and a nursing mother whose chance encounter spirals into a bizarre, unsettling narrative.

NOVEMBER 13-15 | NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

ULTIMA VEZ: INFAMOUS OFFSPRING

Belgium’s renowned Ultima Vez makes its NYU Skirball debut with the U.S. premiere of Infamous Offspring, a high-voltage exploration of myth, power, and rebellion. Directed by the visionary Wim Vandekeybus, this electrifying work reimagines ancient myths through raw physicality, cinematic storytelling, and a pulse-pounding score.

NOVEMBER 21-22 | NYC PREMIERE

JACK FERVER: MY TOWN

My Town is a bold and darkly humorous dance-theater piece from acclaimed artist Jack Ferver, with multimedia by Jeremy Jacob. A queer reimagining of Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, Ferver’s wry, razor-sharp storytelling transforms the nostalgia of small-town life into something far stranger — and far more unsettling. Also inspired by the haunting Wisconsin Death Trip and the eerie undercurrents of Ferver’s own rural past, My Town unearths the ghosts that linger in America’s heartland, revealing how the places we leave never really let us go.