Taylor Mac News

The Obie Award-winning HERE announced today that The Hang, featuring book and lyrics by Taylor Mac, music by Matt Ray and direction by Niegel Smith, has added three performances to its run due to popular demand. The added performances will be on Saturday February 12th, Saturday February 26th and Saturday March 5th at 2pm. 

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater announces its 2022 Summer Theater Season, featuring the return to live performances on the Julie Harris Stage. 

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park has announced the full programming for its 2022 Summer and Fall Festivals in the scenic Hudson Valley location showcasing international Stars from Dance, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Culinary Art worlds. Pre-sale tickets for members on-sale dates: March 1, 2022: Summer Festival, June 16, 2022: Fall Festival.

Jaime Sunwoo on the significance of SPAM in Asian American culture and Taylor Mac and Matt Ray throw the hottest jazz funeral in town.

The Obie Award-winning HERE announced today a two-week extension for The Hang, featuring book and lyrics by Taylor Mac, music by Matt Ray and direction by Niegel Smith. 

Winter is here and what better time of year to stay in and snuggle up with a great book? You're in luck, because this year, Broadway's best have put pen to paper to turn out theatre page-turners of every kind. From theatre biographies to theatre fiction; theatre books for kids to theatre history; check out our collection of 25 new Broadway books for every theatre lover's winter reading list.

At its annual meeting today, the Guthrie Theater (Joseph Haj, Artistic Director) reflected on the organization's 2020–2021 fiscal year, which began September 1, 2020, and ended August 31, 2021. While onstage performances were shuttered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guthrie reached audiences through virtual programming and events, connecting communities during a time when healing and inspiration were greatly needed.

American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University announced today the full cast of the upcoming world premiere of Ocean Filibuster, which will now begin performances at the Loeb Drama Center in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA, on February 24 and open officially on Wednesday, March 2, 2022.

Can we talk—about live opera in New York and elsewhere on the East Coast in the coming months?

The Spartan Theatre at Spokane Falls Community College has shared that the recent production of FireDance, written by Chiori Miyagawa and directed by Ashley DeMoville, is being honored as a regional finalist by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region VII!

Originally set to begin performances on January 7, 2022 as part of the PROTOTYPE Festival, The Hang will now begin performances on Thursday January 20, 2022 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, NY, NY 10013), and run through Sunday February 20, 2022.  

All For One Theater has selected 5 playwrights who will create and develop five brand new solo plays as part of All For One's 2022 Solo Collective development series: Nia Calloway (HOMEBODY: A Ritual Party), Rachel Lin (Dear John), Matthew Paul Olmos (the un'admiring), Reynaldo Piniella (Black and Blue), and Jason Odell Williams (Destroying David).

Today, the directors of the PROTOTYPE Festival, alongside partners St. Ann's Warehouse, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and Abrons Arts Center, announced the difficult decision to postpone this year's tenth anniversary festival to January of 2023, due to the current surge in COVID cases and the resulting safety risks, as well as logistical challenges including artist and staff illnesses, travel complications, and more. The Festival was scheduled to run January 7-16, 2022.

Lucille Lortel Theatre has announced the first guests of 2022 for its “Live at The Lortel” podcast series. Now in its third season, “Live at The Lortel” is hosted by Eric Ostrow and co-hosts Joy DeMichelle and John-Andrew Morrison.

HERE will present The Hang, featuring book and lyrics by Taylor Mac, music by Matt Ray and direction by Niegel Smith. Co-presented with the PROTOTYPE Festival, The Hang will begin performances on Friday January 7, 2022 at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, NY, NY 10013), and run through Sunday February 20, 2022.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park continues its mission to be a home for artists across disciplines with their Annual Summer and Fall Festivals. From June 3 to 19, rising stars from American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Live Arts Global, and the critical darling of the New York scene Taylor Mac will present both classic and new works.

Joe’s Pub has announced their winter programming for 2022 starting in January through February with two shows each evening. In addition, the venue will welcome its former sous chef, Ricky Mungaray back to the kitchen as Executive Chef.

In 2021, the show features new songs by Mac (and a new look by Machine Dazzle) and all the fan favorites from yesteryear, including Mac’s “Christmas with Grandma,” animated by Dana Lyn, and Machine Dazzle’s interior monologue of a Christmas Tree, “Surprise Destiny.”

Edmonson was recently cast as a principal actor in the off-off Broadway musical The Hang by Taylor Mac, with music by Matt Ray and directed by Niegel Smith, where she will be playing the role of Cebes/S'wonderful. Her new album features favorites like “Let It Snow,” “O Christmas Tree,” and “Jingle Bell Rock.” Listen to the new LP now!

Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation has announced the recipient and three finalists for its annual Zelda Fichandler Award. The Fichandler Award recognizes directors and choreographers who have demonstrated great accomplishment to date with singular creativity and deep investment in a particular community or region.