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A person sits and inflates a yellow balloon, covering their face, while another person with curly hair and glasses sits beside them, watching. A musician is visible in the background.
  • Thu Oct 22 – Sat Oct 24

Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie: Four Walls and a Roof

Politics is always a performance.

  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Political Theater
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Five dancers wearing white costumes and head coverings pose with arms raised, standing in a row on a dimly lit stage with a vertical reflective panel beside them.
  • Thu Nov 5 – Sat Nov 7

Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height

The final work of a singular visionary.

  • Dance
  • Butoh
  • International
  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
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Five people are suspended by harnesses on stage in dramatic lighting and mist, appearing to hang limply in front of a brick wall, creating a haunting, theatrical scene.
  • Thu Nov 12 – Sun Nov 15

Dead Centre: Deaf Republic

Silence has never been this loud.

  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • International
  • Political Theater
  • Theater
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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

A religion for everything.

  • Crossing the Line Festival
  • International
  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
  • Transdisciplinary
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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
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A muscular person in red posing trunks flexes on stage facing a golden wall, while a person in white sits on the floor nearby with an IV stand and bags.
  • Thu Mar 18 – Sat Mar 20, 2027

Angélica Liddell: Seppuku

Theater at its outer edge.

  • International
  • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
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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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Ewa Dziarnowska: This resting, patience

Jesse Bransford on “This Resting, Patience”

Blue sits fluctuating in our experience as a continual site for poetry.

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Three people in dark, dramatic costumes and red headscarves perform on stage with eerie lighting. Shadows and dried herbs hang in the background, creating a mysterious atmosphere.

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Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch

Allen S. Weiss on “The 4th Witch”

Enchantment is bewitchery.

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