Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch returns with a landmark restaging of the two most iconic works in the legendary choreographer’s extraordinary repertoire.

The alter-ego of French artist Olivier Py performs an evening of original avant-cabaret, featuring a different surprise New York guest each night.

Jonathan Berger and Kronos Quartet's fevered character study featuring tenor Rinde Eckert and Vân Ánh Võ.

Choreographer John Heginbotham collaborates with illustrator Maira Kalman, bringing her candy-colored musings on travel, beauty, and mortality to fanciful, moving life.

Composer Matthew Aucoin makes his BAM debut with this chamber opera taking inspiration from Walt Whitman’s Civil War diary, directed by American Repertory Theater artistic director Diane Paulus.

Choreographer Bill T. Jones sets a portrait of his beloved nephew Lance T. Briggs against the political landscape of the present in this intimate, impressionistic collage for nine dancers.

A scenically minimalist, emotionally maximalist solo performance by Senegalese dancer Germaine Acogny, choreographed especially for her by Ballet du Nord provocateur Olivier Dubois.

Shakespeare’s most wretched villain weaponizes his ugliness in this prescient production from German director Thomas Ostermeier, with Lars Eidinger in the title role.

In this physical theater work from the sublimely wicked imagination of James Thierrée, two restless siblings are trapped in a dank subterranean world under the watchful gaze of an amphibian captor.

Vancouver-bred, New York-based choreographer Joshua Beamish pays tribute to saudade—a nostalgic yearning for an elusive past—which is said to be the essence of the Portuguese soul.

Combining analog craftsmanship and digital dexterity, Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema engineers a live movie before the audience’s eyes in this meditation on death and ephemerality.

An electric meditation on the racial politics of soccer from multi-talented theater artist, spoken-word poet, and performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Choreographer Cynthia Oliver and four performers excavate layers of racial and gender performance through the shared lens of their Afro-Caribbean and African-American ancestries.

Choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson offer this meditation on permanence and decay, inspired by the earthen articulations of British land artist Andy Goldsworthy, performed by ODC/Dance.

Composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe celebrate 30 years of downtown music collective Bang on a Can with this euphoric musical road trip.

French director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota sets his sights on Albert Camus’ 1948 play, an alternative-fact-filled allegory about fear, contagion, and betrayal in the wake of a government takeover.

Xavier Cha’s perception-altering new work lays bare the intimate yet alienated relationships we have with the bodies on our screens. This event contains adult content.

Wales Millennium Centre’s new staging of Manfred Karge’s 1982 play about a woman who assumes her dead husband’s identity in 20th-century Germany.

The members of David Dorfman Dance waltz and collide with gorgeous abandon, asking what it means to love—in spite, or perhaps because of, the violence and strife in the world.

Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s latest work conjures the bleak and beautiful contradictions of our ever-collapsing universe, featuring his own pulsating original score performed live onstage.

Big Dance Theater takes a dizzy intertextual romp through the diaries of famed 17th-century philanderer Samuel Pepys and his tragic wife Bess, weaving music, dance, video, and text into a subversive portrait.

The inveterate experimentalist performs The Velvet Underground & Nico, the album that charted the course of underground music for decades to come, 50 years after its release.

The inveterate experimentalist celebrates 75 years, performing selections from his legendary career, including his landmark work with the Velvet Underground, the baroque pop perfection of Paris 1919, and beyond.

Belgian director Ivo van Hove offers a brutal reexamination of Ayn Rand’s notorious paean to radical individualism, a saga of sex, architecture, and skybound ambition.

Thaddeus Phillips and Steven Dufala conjure a spectacular quest through space and time in this theatrical epic about a father and son’s search for a treasured object.

Rachel Dickstein and her Brooklyn-based company Ripe Time adapt Haruki Murakami’s 1994 short story about a Japanese housewife whose mundane existence explodes after a haunting dream.

Singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane chronicles his recent two-week train trip across the US in this hymn to the analog intimacy of American rail culture.

Physical theater artist Geoff Sobelle leads an ensemble of dancers and designers in a feat of impossible carpentry: raising a house onstage and making a home within it.

Israeli director Zvi Sahar and PuppetCinema present a dystopian puppet epic, adapted from Tel Aviv-based writer Etgar Keret’s darkly funny short story collection.

Enlisting the talents of actress Lili Taylor, performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra mines her Texan upbringing and aesthetic influences to make sense of our collective subconscious.

Choreographic duo Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener present the fruit of their years-long collaboration with pioneering video artist Charles Atlas.

Two survivors of the Khmer Rouge, composer Him Sophy and filmmaker Rithy Panh, attempt to return dignity to their country’s fallen with this musical ritual remembering the Cambodian genocide.