NYU Skirball's 2018-19 Season Opens At Midnight, Today

NYU Skirball's 2018-19 season will open at midnight on September 8, 2018 with an all-night storytelling marathon from the U.K.'s acclaimed Forced Entertainment theater company, today announced Director Jay Wegman.

The season will feature over 60 unconventional, timely and often controversial multidisciplinary works and events by some of the world's leading provocateurs, innovators, artists and activists, and will include five marathon events, including the North American premiere of Ian Fabre's monumental, 24-hour Mt. Olympus: to glorify the cult of tragedy; a two-week bicentennial festival honoring philosopher Karl Marx; dance premieres from acclaimed choreographers; award-winning theater, music, circus, and burlesque; a 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising; and the Elevator Repair Company's award-winning, eight-hour production of Gatz.

The season will showcase diverse and cutting-edge International Artists from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland, Tonga, the U.K., Uruguay, and the United States, and will include five world premieres, five American premieres and seven New York premieres, running from September 8, 2018 - May 4, 2019.

"NYU Skirball is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, historically a center of resistance, dissent, free thinking and artistic richness. Skirball's 2018 season honors and reflects this legacy of protest by featuring works of diverse genres, cultures and perspectives, including a months-long commemoration of the Stonewall Uprising," said Jay Wegman. "With this season's mix of theater, dance and performance, we proudly embrace renegade artists and companies who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. After all, we are NYU's largest classroom and we're here to engage, provoke, and inspire."