This interview was first posted in a different form as a Radio Wolinsky podcast on November 27, 2018.
Taylor Mac, writer/performer/co-director of “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” which ran at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco in late November/early December, 2018. In 2020, Taylor Mac has taken elements from that show and created a streaming show that ran live on December 12, 2020 and runs On Demand through the Curran website until January 3, 2021.
The year 2018 was a good one for performer and playwright Taylor Mac. Winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant, he was also a finalist for his performance piece A 24-Decade history of Popular Music. His play Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, starring Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White, which is discussed in this interview, reviewed mixed reviews (raves and pans) and officially opened on Broadway on April 21, 2019, and closed on June 16, 2019 after 45 previews and 65 performances.
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce … Pandemic! has set design and costumes by his long-time collaborator Machine Dazzle. The 2018 production was co-directed by Niegel Smith, the artistic director of the Flea theatre company in New York.
