TAYLOR MAC HOLIDAY SAUCE ...PANDEMIC!
450 S 4th St
450 S 4th St, Lewiston, NY 14092, USA
New York
43.1654888
-79.04528119999999
Description
World premiere live stream performance and virtual VIP After Party to
celebrate the WNY LGBTQ+ community and honor Buffalo's Ari Moore
Christmas as calamity—2020 Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac and his long-time collaborators, designer Machine Dazzle, Music Director Matt Ray and producers Pomegranate Arts join together to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. Holiday Sauce… Pandemic! will blend music, film, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate. There is more to the holidays than rampant capitalism and gift giving and in Taylor’s world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality. This holiday season will be bittersweet for so many— Taylor Mac reminds us of the collective power of our chosen families, a message that will be of particular resonance this year when so many have lost so much.Intended for mature audiencesProceeds benefit Artpark, Pride Center of Western New York, and Niagara Pride Inc.VIP Virtual After Party celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and honoring Ari MooreImmediately following the performance, Artpark and the LGBTQ+ community with emcees Anthony Chase & Javier Bustillos will host a local party via Zoom. During the After Party, we will honor artist Ari Moore, Buffalo’s first prominently out Black trans woman who has established herself as a leader and matriarch of the local movement for decades. Moore owned and operated the Inner City Art Studio before joining the Buffalo Police Department, where she served as an officer for 25 years. Members of the Holiday Sauce community will “stop by” to perform random acts of fabulousness, answer questions, make cocktails, dance at a dance party etc. with our honoree in attendance.Made possible with generous support from:Pamela & Joseph Priest
About Taylor MacTaylor
Mac—who uses “judy” (lowercase sic unless at the start of a sentence,
just like a regular pronoun), not as a name but as a gender pronoun—is a
playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, director and
producer. Judy’s work has been performed in hundreds venues including on
Broadway and at New York’s Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate
Brooklyn, and Playwrights Horizons, as well as London’s Hackney Empire
and The Barbican, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall and
Theater at the Ace Hotel (through UCLA’s Center for the Art of
Performance), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, The
Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, Spoleto
Festival, and San Francisco’s Curran Theater and MOMA. Judy is the
author of many works of theater including,
Gary, A Sequel to Titus
Andronicus, The Fre, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Hir, The Walk
Across America for Mother Earth, Comparison is Violence, The Lily’s
Revenge, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor
Mac, Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam, The Face of
Liberalism, Okay, Maurizio Pollini, A Crevice
, and The Hot Month and the soon to be premiered play, Prosperous Fools and The Hang. Sometimes
Taylor acts in other people’s plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen
Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of
Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Public Theater, in the City Center’s Encores production of Gone Missing, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People On Earth opposite Mandy Patinkin and directed by Susan Stroman.
Mac
is the 2020 Ibsen Award winner, a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for Drama, a Tony Award® nominated playwright, and the
recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize for Drama
Inspired by American History, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, a Doris
Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim, the Herb Alpert in Theater,
the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2
Bessies, 2 Obies, a Helpmann, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. An
alumnus of New Dramatists, judy is currently a New York Theater Workshop
Usual Suspect and the Resident playwright at the Here Arts Center.
Taylor Mac was an artist-in-residence at Artpark in June 2020
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2020-12-12T19:00:00-05:00
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2020-12-12T21:00:00-05:00
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