Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!

A Fabergé radical—beautiful, ridiculous and full of hidden tricks—the sublimely freakish Taylor Mac pilots audiences through fantastical journeys, guided by the compass of his magnetic individuality. In the culmination of a five-year project, the writer-performer recently surveyed the past 250 years of American music in a 24-hour marathon that was immediately hailed as a history-making event in and of itself. In this touring holiday show, with help from costume designer Machine Dazzle and music director Matt Ray, the 2017 MacArthur Fellow sleighs it with Christmas songs. This year’s virtual edition is performed live three times on December 12—those marathon muscles come in handy!—and will then be available on demand on a pay-what-you-can basis through January 2. (Donations of $10 or more are encouraged.)