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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 5h

ANNOUNCING OUR SECOND SPRING 2026 SHOW! Narcissister: VOYAGE INTO INFINITY (Jan 16–18) — first seen at Pioneer Works — brings surreal feats, feminist critique & lo-fi magic to Skirball, with live music by Holland Andrews.

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📸 Walter Wlodarczyk

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 5h

Announcing our first Spring 2026! After a hit run at the 2025 Avignon Festival, Mario Banushi’s MAMI blends dance, surrealism & raw emotion exploring motherhood & memory. Presented with UTR.

🎟️ Member presale now • Public Oct 18
🔗 nyuskirball.org/events/mami/
📸Andreas Simopoulos

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 1d

"★★★★★...Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece.” – The Guardian

Produced by @landmarkireland with support from @cultureireland 💚

📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Patricio Cassinoni
🔗 in bio

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 2d

This is a PHANTOM OF THE OPERA you haven't experienced....yet. Theater In Quarantine returns with a remote world premiere inspired by the 1925 silent horror classic.

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🎭 Theater in Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
🗓 Oct 23-Nov 3

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 3d

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE is a Critic's Pick!

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📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Greg Kessler
🔗 in bio

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 3d

We opened our inbox and found the most beautiful love letter to ASSES.MASSES!!!

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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 4d

Chandeliers will fall.

🎭 Theater in Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
🗓 Oct 23-Nov 3
🔗 in bio

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 5d

New screening just added! National Theatre Live’s THE FIFTH STEP starring Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden and Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman.

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🎟️ Member presale now. Public on sale starts Oct 18 at noon!

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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 5d

Myth collides with dazzling stagecraft in INFAMOUS OFFSPRING, an explosive new dance-theater epic from Ultima Vez. Greek myths ignite onstage as performers embody the chaos, beauty, and fury of gods and their unruly children.

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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Opening to KRAPP'S LAST TAPE! Celebrate with this behind-the-scenes look: a stunning costume sketch by designer Katie Davenport, a two-time Irish Times Theatre Award winner.

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📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball

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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 6d

"Stephen Rea’s triumph.” – The Irish Times

The man, the myth, the legend that is Stephen Rea! Words can't describe how lucky we feel that he is gracing our stage in KRAPP'S LAST TAPE! nyuskirball.org/events/krapp...

📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball
📸Landmark Productions

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 6d

Happy first performance to KRAPP'S LAST TAPE! It's an honor to have the legend Stephen Rea on our stage in this Beckett classic.

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📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 7d

Performances of KRAPP'S LAST TAPE start tonight!

nyuskirball.org/events/krapp...

📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 8d

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE begins performances tomorrow! Here is a sneak peek of the set.

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📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 8d

Direct from its acclaimed run at London’s Barbican, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE explores memory, regret, and time with Samuel Beckett’s signature wit.

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📼 Stephen Rea: Krapp’s Last Tape
🗓 Oct 8-19
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 10d

Last chance to get tickets to today's screening of INTER ALIA starring Rosamund Pike!

nyuskirball.org/events/inter...

🎸 NT Live: Inter Alia
🗓 October 5
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 11d

The donkeys have arrived and are ready for a revolution! Part video game, part political satire, ASSES.MASSES is an interactive theater experience where the audience takes control — literally.

nyuskirball.org/events/asses...

🎮 Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim: asses.masses
🗓 TODAY AT 1PM

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, ASSES.MASSES may be 7+ hours, but don’t worry, you won’t go hungry! Food and drinks will be served during every intermission thanks to Cinnaholic, The Granola Bar, Plated, Target, Trader Joe’s, and Wegmans.

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 12d

Before ASSES.MASSES changes your life tomorrow, you may have the question...how does it work?

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🎮 Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim: asses.masses
🗓 Oct 4
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 13d

Susie Wang’s U.S. premiere BURNT TOAST is a surreal, darkly comic thriller about a stranger carrying a silver briefcase and a nursing mother whose chance meeting spirals into the bizarre.

nyuskirball.org/events/burnt...

🍞 Susie Wang: Burnt Toast
🗓 Nov 5-8
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 13d

Meet the cast of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA! We can't wait for this fully remote world premiere inspired by the 1925 silent horror classic, created by Joshua William Gelb and Normandy Sherwood.

nyuskirball.org/events/phant...

🎭 Theater in Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
🗓 Oct 23-Nov 3

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 14d

"It’s a nontraditional theatre experience, reminiscent of hanging out with your friends trying to beat a story-based role-playing game on a weekend afternoon that turns into early morning"

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🎮 Patrick Blenkarn + Milton Lim: asses.masses
🗓 Oct 4
📍 NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 15d

Spooky season starts tomorrow! Just in time for Halloween, Theater in Quarantine returns with PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, a fully remote world premiere inspired by the 1925 silent horror classic.

nyuskirball.org/events/phant...

🎭 Theater in Quarantine: Phantom of the Opera
🗓 Oct 23-Nov 3

NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 16d

After being replaced by Machines, the asses are uniting to stage their first Protest. The plan: They’ll march and demand their jobs back. But will they be able to convince the Humans to give up their Machines?

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NYU Skirball @nyuskirball.bsky.social · 17d

ONE WEEK UNTIL INTER ALIA! Crown Court Judge Jessica Parks is at the top of her career, but behind the robe she’s a karaoke lover, devoted wife, and mother. When crisis strikes, can she keep her family together?

nyuskirball.org/events/inter...

🎸 NT Live: Inter Alia
🗓 October 5
📍 NYU Skirball