The lineup has been revealed for the 2026-2027 NYU Skirball season, which will include premieres from Romeo Castellucci, Angélica Liddell, Milo Rau, and more.

The U.S. premiere of Tom at the Farm will be staged October 8-10, presented in Portuguese with English supertitles. Rodrigo Portella stages Michel Marc Bouchard’s play on a ring of open earth that comes to stand for a whole country turning back on itself.

Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch will run October 15-17, making its New York City premiere. The artists of Manual Cinema will build Macbeth shot by shot in front of audiences, the story starting where Shakespeare’s play ends.

Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie’s Four Walls and a Roof will make its North American premiere October 22-24. The work transforms Bertolt Brecht‘s 1947 hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields will be presented October 29, featuring the Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir for an evening of ambitious music and American history, with commentary from the composer herself. The Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio features music and texts by Wolfe and scenography and projection design by Jeff Sugg.

Sankai Juku’s TOTE—Void and Height will make its North American premiere November 5-7. The dance piece serves as dance troupe’s farewell to choreographer Ushio Amagatsu, who passed in 2024 after shaping the troupe for nearly 50 years.

Deaf Republic will run November 12-15, making its North American premiere. Obie Award-winning Dead Centre and Sign Language poet Zoë McWhinney’s adaption of Ilya Kaminsky’s book explores a fable of occupation in which silence becomes both a hiding place and an act of defiance through a deaf and hearing ensemble with sign language, puppetry, live cinema, and music.

Joris Lacoste’s Nexus de l’adoration will be presented November 20-21 as part of Crossing the Line 2026, making its North American premiere. The work follows nine officiants taking the stage as they sing, chant, testify, and dance their way through the world’s vast repertoire of devotion, gestures, and phrases gathered across faiths, cultures, and contexts and set loose in a single rite.

Minor Theater’s Pity Whore will make its world premiere January 13-16, 2027 as part of the 2027 Under the Radar Festival. Playwright Julia Jarcho takes classic Jacobean shocker ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and runs it straight into the present, following Annie, who waits waits tables at the Cheesecake Factory while her brother’s away at school, and their mom is “kind of a slut.” Kedian Keohan (Rocky Horror Show) will direct.

Sweden’s Cullberg company will bring Faye Driscoll‘s flesh chariot, chariot of flesh February 4-6, 2027, making its North American premiere. In the dance piece, 15 bodies collide, merge, tremble, and come apart, a single shifting human mass that never holds one shape for long.

Milo Rau’s Medea’s Children will make its North American premiere February 11-13, 2027. In it, a group of children walks onstage and begins to tell a story adults would rather not hear, drawing on both a real criminal case and the ancient myth of Medea—the mother who murdered her own children.

The Nature Theater of Oklahoma will bring Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life February 18-20, 2027. The chamber opera follows guests at a pizza party, exchanging slices and festivity, until a guest reveals she is dying of a mysterious illness and vanishes from the party, and her presumed death cracks open a doorway to the next world.

Angélica Liddell’s Seppuku will be staged March 18-20, 2027, making its North American premiere. Spanish artist Liddell will join Japanese writer Yukio Mishima for the piece rooted in Japanese ritual, offering a ceremony pushed to the far limit of what a body and an audience can hold.

Romeo Castellucci’s Bros will make its U.S. premiere March 31-April 3, 2027, presented in Italian and English with English supertitles. The farce about obedience, force, and how quickly a person hands responsibility to someone else’s voice through pop culture, Christian iconography, and the visual language of the nightly news.

What Belongs to You will be presented April 15-17, 2027. Named Best New Opera of 2025 by the Music Critics Association of North America, David T. Little’s What Belongs to You draws from Garth Greenwell’s celebrated debut novel, centering on an American teacher and a young hustler named Mitko who meet in a public restroom in Sofia, and a transaction turns into something neither of them can name or control. The production will feature Grammy-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, the ensemble Alarm Will Sound under the leadership of Alan Pierson in the pit, and direction by Mark Morris.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione will run April 22-24, 2027. The dance piece set to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons takes the most familiar music in the world and opens it out into pattern, geometry, and moving bodies until the score sounds new.

For tickets and more information, visit NYUSkirball.org.