Taylor Mac’s list of honors and awards includes a MacArthur Fellowship, a Tony Award nomination, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obies, and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
A playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, performance artist, drag icon, director, and producer, Mr. Mac, who uses the pronoun “judy,” will make his first-ever appearance in the Hamptons with “Taylor Mac: Born to Run (To and From the Hamptons)” tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Guild Hall.
The evening will feature recent songs written in collaboration with Matt Ray, a composer and music director, with performances by Mr. Mac, Mr. Ray, the band members Viva DeConcini, Gary Wang, and Shirazette Tinnin, and costumes by Machine Dazzle, the winner of a 2024 Emmy for Outstanding Costume Design.
Among Mr. Mac’s noteworthy productions is “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” a musical and performance-art work that won the Edward M. Kennedy Prize. Intended to last 24 hours, the show is presented in eight acts, each representing three decades of U.S. history, and features over 200 songs.
Reviewing its 2016 performance at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, Wesley Morris, a New York Times critic, called it “one of the great experiences of my life . . . In song after song (after song), Mr. Mac, who’s white, gay and 43 years old, explored the racism, chauvinism, homophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy coursing through the history of American song.”
Mr. Mac’s many other works include “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” a musical; “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” which was nominated for seven Tony Awards, and “The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville” that was directed by Susan Stroman and paired Mr. Mac with Mandy Patinkin.
Tickets are $85 to $155, $75.50 to $139.50 for members. The program is intended for adult audiences.
D’Addario, a renowned manufacturer of musical instrument accessories, is celebrating its 50th anniversary at Guild Hall on Saturday t 7 p.m. with “A World-Class Evening of Classical Guitar.”
Hosted by John Schaefer of WNYC Radio, the program will feature performances by Paco Peña, an acclaimed flamenco artist and composer from Spain; Badi Assad, a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer; Benjamin Verdery, an American guitarist noted for his iconoclastic performance style; Xuefei Yang, the first internationally recognized Chinese guitarist, and Jack and Elle Davisson, an American brother-sister teenage duo.
Tickets are $75 to $125, $67.50 to $112.50 for members. Only a limited number remained as of press time.
