Christmas as calamity—2020 Ibsen Award winner, MacArthur Fellow, and former Armory Artist-in-Residence Taylor Mac and long-time collaborators, designer and fellow Artist-in-Residence Machine Dazzle, Music Director Matt Ray, and producer Pomegranate Arts join together to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. Filmed in part at the Armory, 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 Mac’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.

Access to the On-Demand celebration will be distributed to ticket holders by email beginning December 13, 2020 and will be viewable until January 2, 2021.

Taylor Mac—who uses “judy” (lowercase 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 of venues including on Broadway and at New York’s Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, and Playwrights Horizons, among others. 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 numerous awards.

Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! was commissioned by The International Ibsen Festival, The Norwegian Ministry of Culture, and The National Theatre of Oslo with additional support from Park Avenue Armory, Artpark-Lewiston, NY, ASU Gammage at Arizona State University, Berliner Festspiele, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Curran San Francisco, FirstWorks/Brown Arts Initiative, The Guthrie Theater, The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Live Arts Miami, OZ Arts Nashville, Seattle Theatre Group and On The Boards, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Teatros del Canal Madrid, TO Live, UtahPresents, and Wexner Center of the Arts at the Ohio State University.

December 12, 2020–
January 2, 2021

Virtual Event

Running Time: 65 minutes

Tickets are intended for single-household use and non-refundable.

This program includes adult language and sexual content and is intended for mature audiences.

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This performance was filmed in accordance with the New York State Guidelines for Media Production.