NYU Skirball has revealed its 2025 season, which will include works by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, Rimini Protokoll, Samuel Beckett, Theater in Quarantine, Susie Wang, and more.
The season will open with Open Machine, a world premiere dance from Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, running September 19–20. Projected images, audiovisual description, and virtual renderings respond in real time to the dancers, as human and technological pathways converge into a choreography that imagines an artificial intelligence programmed by experimental dance.
German theatre company Rimini Protokoll's All Right. Good Night will make its North American premiere September 25-27. In the production, director Helgard Haug interweaves the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with a deeply personal story: her father’s slow fading into dementia.
Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim's eight-hour theatrical experience asses.masses will be presented October 4. Described as "Animal Farm meets Pokémon meets Final Fantasy," the interactive theatre experience that is part video game and part political satire allows the audience to take control—literally.
Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape will play October 8–19, starring Irish actor Stephen Rea. Coming from its acclaimed run at London’s Barbican, the solo performance explores memory, regret, and the passage of time with Beckett’s signature wit and stark poetry.
Theater In Quarantine will take on Phantom of the Opera—not the musical, but the 1925 silent horror film. From October 23-November 3, Joshua William Gelb and Normandy Sherwood's inventive adaptation will make its fully remote world premiere, broadcast live from a labyrinth of miniature stages inside an East Village apartment.
From Norway’s acclaimed Susie Wang Theater Company, Burnt Toast will make its North American premiere November 5–8. Set in a crimson-hued hotel lobby in the American South, the surreal and darkly comic thriller blends horror, humor, and the uncanny.
Infamous Offspring will subsequently make its North American premiere from Belgium’s Ultima Vez dance company. Directed by Wim Vandekeybus, the high-voltage exploration of myth, power, and rebellion through theatre and dance will run November 13–15.
Jack Ferver’s My Town will run November 21 and 22, bringing a darkly humorous dance-theatre piece with multimedia by Jeremy Jacob to New York City for the first time. The queer reimagining of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town transforms the nostalgia of small-town life into something far stranger—and far more unsettling.
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