The genius performance artist TAYLOR MAC is in Rhode Island today Sunday 15th September, and as we write judy (Taylor’s preferred pronoun) is currently on a Panel at Brown University Granoff Center for the Arts in Providence.
However tomorrow at the Fenwick Theater in nearby Worcester in Mass, Mac will be performing an Abridged version of judy’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music ‘. Originally performed as a one-time 24-hour event, it is a subjective history of America since its founding in 1776., and the project chronicles the ways in which communities build themselves because they are being torn apart.
This abridged version of the show is a highly immersive and outrageously entertaining crash course in the 240 years (and counting) of the history of American culture and dysfunction. Told from the perspective of groups whose stories are often “forgot, dismissed, or buried,” the show highlights various musical styles and artistic voices ranging from murder ballads to disco, Walt Whitman to David Bowie and beyond..
Years in development, the original piece was and was recognized on The New York Times’ 2016 lists of Best Performances, Best Theater, and Best Music.
IF you cannot make it THEN you can at least tune in TODAY Sunday 15th September 2019 at 5PM HERE to a LIvestream of A Conversation with Taylor Mac at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts
