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SEX VARIANTS OF 1941: A STUDY OF HOMOSEXUAL PATTERNS Comes to NYU Skirball Next Month


by Stephi Wild - October 10, 2024

NYU Skirball will present Sex Variants of 1941: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, a world premiere play with music from the award-winning theater company The Civilians, running November 14 – 24 at NYU Skirball....

SHOW/BOAT:A RIVER Comes to NYU Skirball in 2025


by Stephi Wild - October 02, 2024

NYU Skirball will present the Obie Award-winning Target Margin Theater’s world premiere production of Show/Boat: A River, a daring reconsideration of the seminal musical Show Boat, running January 9–26, 2025 at NYU Skirball, with an opening set for Wednesday, January 15. ...

SHOWGIRL: Vulgarity, Heat, Dancing, Money, Sex, Power, Vanity, is Coming to NYU Skirball


by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 18, 2024

NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of SHOWGIRL: Vulgarity, Heat, Dancing, Money, Sex, Power, Vanity. The performance explores themes of power and vanity through dance. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

NYU Skirball Reveals Lineup For Fall 2024 Season


by Stephi Wild - May 08, 2024

 NYU Skirball’s Fall 2024 season will open on Friday, September 6 with the North American premiere of Counting and Cracking, a two-week run co-presented with The Public Theater. Learn more about the season here!...

Past Shows

The Conquest of Bread


Russian anarchist and philosopher Peter Kropotkin’s 1892 critique of capitalism, The Conquest of Bread, is the inspiration for this special May Day choral performance, featuring ...

The Employees
The Employees
4/24 - 4/26/2025


The story of The Employees unfolds in an undetermined near future, on a spaceship carrying people and humanoid robots, with Earth having been annihilated. The ...

PATH and Everywhere All the Time


Seán Curran Company makes its NYU Skirball debut with two works: the world premiere of PATH, a 30-minute work reflecting on the phenomenon of the ...

National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove


ational Theatre Live presents Dr. Strangelove co-adapted by Armando Iannucci co-adapted and directed by Sean Foley Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) ...

Amour, Acide et Noix
Amour, Acide et Noix
4/11 - 4/12/2025


Four bodies, given over to the dance, reveal what has taken refuge behind the strangely opaque skin: muscle, water, breath, energy, an outlook on life, ...

The Reclamation
The Reclamation
4/4 - 4/5/2025


Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group is a Brooklyn-based dance company whose mission is to create, research, develop, and present new performance work that investigates ...

Masterclass
Masterclass
3/28 - 3/29/2025


Blending together the savagely comic discourse of Adrienne Truscott (Wild Bore, Asking For It) with the slick dramaturgy of the internationally renowned theatre company Brokentalkers ...

Composing While Black


The International Contemporary Ensemble performs work by and with four composer-performers from the renowned experimental music collective, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ...

National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest


Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy. ...

Mary Said What She Said
Mary Said What She Said
2/27 - 3/2/2025


Award-winning French actress Isabelle Huppert gives a tour de force performance in this remarkable production, directed and designed by the American theatre visionary Robert Wilson. ...

Tanz
Tanz
2/14 - 2/15/2025


Prepare to experience a contemporary masterpiece that defies conventions and reimagines the art of movement. Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ is a breathtaking fusion of classical ballet, ...

Show/Boat: A River
Show/Boat: A River
1/9 - 1/26/2025


Show Boat is both a powerful narrative and a historical reflection, revealing a legacy marked by violent racism while striving for a more just America. ...

Nature Theater of Oklahoma: No President


“ Nature Theater of Oklahoma is one of the best ensemble theater companies in the world.”  –  Bomb Magazine Nature Theater of Oklahoma returns to ...

The Civilians: Sex Variants of 1941


In this world premiere, The Civilians examine the intimate lives of Depression-era queers in this kaleidoscopic, musical fantasia adapted from the 1941 text  Sex Variants ...

Visitation
Visitation
9/9 - 9/10/2022


NYU Skirball presents John Jasperse Projects, in the world premiere of Visitation, a new dance that is part seance and part exorcism, on Friday, September ...

Flamenco Singer Miguel Poveda in Concert


In celebration of its 25th anniversary, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) has joined forces with NYU Skirball and the Flamenco Festival New ...

Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten


NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of Belgium choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaekers Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind/Bach6Cellosuiten (In the Midst of Life/Bachs ...

Elements of Oz
Elements of Oz
12/7 - 12/8/2019


NYU Skirball will present Elements of Oz, a live performance/augmented reality mash-up of theater, technology and pop culture that celebrates and deconstructs The Wizard of ...

Elements of Oz
Elements of Oz
12/7 - 12/8/2019


NYU Skirball will present Elements of Oz, a live performance/augmented reality mash-up of theater, technology and pop culture that celebrates and deconstructs The Wizard of ...

Elements of Oz
Elements of Oz
12/7 - 12/8/2019


NYU Skirball will present Elements of Oz, a live performance/augmented reality mash-up of theater, technology and pop culture that celebrates and deconstructs The Wizard of ...

The Road Awaits Us
The Road Awaits Us
11/8 - 11/9/2019


NYU Skirball will present The Road Awaits Us, two North American premieres and one beloved solo from Big Dance Theatre on Friday November 8 and ...

to come (extended)
to come (extended)
10/25 - 10/26/2019


NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Mette Ingvarstens to come (extended), on Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 7:30 pm ...

Soundlines
Soundlines
10/18 - 10/19/2019


International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to NYU Skirball following its critically acclaimed, sold-out run of the whisper opera in 2018, with Soundlines, two premieres by ...

Underneath the Skin
Underneath the Skin
10/11 - 10/12/2019


NYU Skirball will present the world premiere John Kellys Underneath the Skin, a NYU Skirball commission, running October 11 and 12, 2019 at 7:30 pm ...

Wild Bore
Wild Bore
9/27 - 9/28/2019


NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Wild Bore, an outrageous comic dissection of critics and arts criticism, starring three outrageous international comedians, Adrienne ...

White Noise
White Noise
9/20 - 9/22/2019


NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Tony Award winner Daniel Fishs White Noise, freely inspired bythe novel by Don DeLillo, running Friday, September ...

White Noise
White Noise
9/20 - 9/22/2019


NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of Tony Award winner Daniel Fishs White Noise, freely inspired bythe novel by Don DeLillo, running Friday, September ...

Moles
Moles
9/12 - 9/14/2019


NYU Skirball will present the U.S. premiere of French theater director and visual artist Philippe Quesnes The Moles, three unique theatrical events running Thursday, September ...

Hot Brown Honey
Hot Brown Honey
4/19 - 4/20/2019


New York, NY, March 8, 2019 NYU Skirball will present the American premiere of Hot Brown Honey, a riotous celebration of Hip-Hop politics, dance, comedy, ...

Adam
Adam
2/14 - 2/16/2019


The National Theatre of Scotlands acclaimed production of Adam will have its North American premiere at NYU Skirball, February 14 16 at 7:30 pm. Adam ...

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