We’ve put together pairings of shows with resonant themes, to help you get into some Skirball Studies this semester. Go beyond genre & consider following some of the shared imagery, ideas, technologies and concerns, curated throughout the season. If you are already planning to see one of these shows, why not add another & get comparative?
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Open Machine + Asses.Masses
Two looks into the intersections of technology and performance. Both productions utilize multi-media formats, responsive learning and collective action, and raise questions of social and spatial structures that shape our daily lives.
Oct 4, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim: asses.masses
Open Machine + Infamous Offspring
A pairing of experimental, multi-media contemporary dance performances. These shows masterfully incorporate visual art and technology to supplement rich choreography and storylines.
Sep 19 - 20, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener: Open Machine
Nov 13 - 15, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Wim Vandekeybus: Infamous Offspring
All Right Good Night + Krapp’s Last Tape
Raw, unsentimental takes on memory, age, and loss – what we remember and what we forget.
Sep 25 - 27, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Rimini Protokoll: All right. Good night.
Oct 8 - 19, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
All Right Good Night + Infamous Offspring
Two long-standing European companies working at the cutting edge of multimedia performance, utilizing dramatic shifts in scale to move between intimate family dynamics and mythic, global stories.
Sep 25 - 27, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Rimini Protokoll: All right. Good night.
Nov 13 - 15, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Wim Vandekeybus: Infamous Offspring
All Right Good Night + My Town
Two auteurs bring their personal experiences into larger social and political contexts.
Sep 25 - 27, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Rimini Protokoll: All right. Good night.
Nov 21 - 22, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Jack Ferver: My Town
ASses.Masses + Phantom of the Opera
These shows offer inverse takes on the role of the audience – a live performance to be viewed via phone screen in solitude, vs. a video game played collectively and in full by a live audience.
Oct 4, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim: asses.masses
Oct 23 - Nov 3, 2025 | Skirball Presents, #virtual
Theater In Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera + Burnt Toast
No better time for experimental, live horror than Halloween season!
Oct 23 - Nov 3, 2025 | Skirball Presents, #virtual
Theater In Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
Nov 5 - 8, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
Phantom of the Opera + My Town
Both of these shows offer an experimental revival of theatrical classics, with exceptional performances.
Oct 23 - Nov 3, 2025 | Skirball Presents, #virtual
Theater In Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
Nov 21 - 22, 2025 | Skirball Presents
Jack Ferver: My Town
Burnt Toast + My Town
Two eerie, unsettling takes on rural Americana – one developed through lived experience and the other observing from afar – through the lenses of tragedy and horror.