{"id":327070,"date":"2026-08-21T23:54:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327070\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T23:54:38","slug":"lineup-revealed-for-2026-2027-nyu-skirball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327070\/","title":{"rendered":"Lineup Revealed For 2026-2027 NYU Skirball Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

The lineup has been revealed for\u00a0the\u00a02026-2027 NYU Skirball season, which will include\u00a0premieres from Romeo Castellucci, Ang\u00e9lica Liddell, Milo Rau<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

The U.S. premiere of\u00a0Tom at the Farm\u00a0will be staged October 8-10, presented\u00a0in\u00a0Portuguese with English supertitles.\u00a0Rodrigo 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.<\/p>\n

Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch\u00a0will run October 15-17, making its New York City premiere.\u00a0The\u00a0artists of Manual Cinema\u00a0will build Macbeth shot by shot in front of audiences, the story starting\u00a0where Shakespeare\u2019s play ends.<\/p>\n

Rabih Mrou\u00e9 and Lina Majdalanie’s\u00a0Four Walls and a Roof\u00a0will make its North American premiere October 22-24. The work transforms Bertolt Brecht<\/a>‘s 1947 hearing\u00a0before the House Un-American Activities Committee.<\/p>\n

Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields\u00a0will be presented October 29, featuring the\u00a0Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir for an evening of ambitious music and American history, with\u00a0commentary from the composer herself.\u00a0The Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio features\u00a0music and texts by\u00a0Wolfe and\u00a0scenography and projection design by\u00a0Jeff Sugg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sankai Juku’s\u00a0TOTE\u2014Void and Height\u00a0will make its North American premiere November 5-7.\u00a0The dance piece serves as dance troupe’s\u00a0farewell to choreographer\u00a0Ushio Amagatsu, who passed in 2024 after shaping the troupe for nearly 50 years.<\/p>\n

Deaf Republic\u00a0will run November 12-15, making its North American premiere.\u00a0Obie Award-winning\u00a0Dead Centre and Sign Language poet Zo\u00eb McWhinney’s\u00a0adaption of\u00a0Ilya Kaminsky’s book explores\u00a0a 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.<\/p>\n

Joris Lacoste’s\u00a0Nexus de l’adoration will be presented November 20-21 as part of\u00a0Crossing the Line 2026, making its North American premiere. The work follows nine\u00a0officiants taking the stage as they\u00a0sing, 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.<\/p>\n

Minor Theater’s\u00a0Pity Whore\u00a0will make its world premiere January 13-16, 2027 as part of\u00a0the 2027 Under the Radar Festival. Playwright\u00a0Julia Jarcho<\/a> takes classic Jacobean shocker ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore and runs it straight into the present, following Annie, who waits\u00a0waits tables at the Cheesecake Factory while her brother\u2019s away at school, and\u00a0their mom is “kind of a slut.”\u00a0Kedian Keohan (Rocky Horror Show) will direct.<\/p>\n

Sweden’s Cullberg company will bring\u00a0Faye Driscoll<\/a>‘s\u00a0flesh chariot, chariot of flesh\u00a0February 4-6, 2027,\u00a0making its North American premiere. In the dance piece, 15\u00a0bodies collide, merge, tremble, and come apart, a single shifting human mass that never holds one shape for long.<\/p>\n

Milo Rau’s\u00a0Medea’s Children\u00a0will make its North American premiere February 11-13, 2027. In it, a\u00a0group 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\u2014the mother who murdered her own children.<\/p>\n

The Nature Theater of Oklahoma will bring\u00a0Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life\u00a0February 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.<\/p>\n

Ang\u00e9lica Liddell’s\u00a0Seppuku\u00a0will be staged March 18-20, 2027, making its North American premiere.\u00a0Spanish artist\u00a0Liddell will join\u00a0Japanese writer\u00a0Yukio Mishima for the piece\u00a0rooted in Japanese ritual, offering\u00a0a ceremony pushed to the far limit of what a body and an audience can hold.<\/p>\n

Romeo Castellucci’s\u00a0Bros\u00a0will make its U.S. premiere March 31-April 3, 2027, presented in Italian and English with English supertitles.\u00a0The farce\u00a0about obedience, force, and how quickly a person hands responsibility to someone else’s voice through\u00a0pop culture, Christian iconography, and the visual language of the nightly news.<\/p>\n

What Belongs to You\u00a0will be presented April 15-17, 2027.\u00a0Named Best New Opera of 2025 by the Music Critics Association of North America,\u00a0David T. Little’s What Belongs to You\u00a0draws\u00a0from 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\u00a0transaction turns into something neither of them can name or control. The production will feature\u00a0Grammy-winning tenor\u00a0Karim Sulayman, the ensemble Alarm Will Sound under the leadership of\u00a0Alan Pierson in the pit, and direction by\u00a0Mark Morris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker<\/a> and Radouan Mriziga:\u00a0Il Cimento dell\u2019Armonia e dell\u2019Inventione\u00a0will run April 22-24, 2027.\u00a0The\u00a0dance piece set to\u00a0Vivaldi\u2019s\u00a0Four Seasons takes the most familiar music in the world and opens it out into pattern, geometry, and moving bodies until the score sounds new.<\/p>\n

For tickets and more information, visit NYUSkirball.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The lineup has been revealed for\u00a0the\u00a02026-2027 NYU Skirball season, which will include\u00a0premieres from Romeo Castellucci, Ang\u00e9lica Liddell, Milo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-327070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}