Hir review – Felicity Huffman wreaks havoc in Taylor Mac’s black comedy
‘It’s black and white. I did it’: Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on her comeback after jail
August 2023
Taylor Mac returns with a new extravaganza: ‘We’re trying to hypnotise everybody to be more queer’
There’s a deficit of songs just for queer people, Taylor Mac says. So the US artist has written 54 new ones, to be performed across a four-hour spectacle
December 2021
Sexual Consent Santa is coming to town! Taylor Mac’s drag queen Christmas
With a Virgin Mary strip show, lessons in how to sit on Santa’s lap and a carol about drugs, this festive extravaganza is about as alternative as Christmas can get. Is Britain ready for the New York legend’s show?
April 2019
Gary review – Taylor Mac's Titus sequel is a bloody mess
An inspired idea, a comedic follow-up to Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy, is sadly not enough to sustain a disappointingly thin show
October 2017
Taylor Mac review – explosive, spectacular, heartbreaking 'dandy revenge'
It took 24 hours over four nights for Mac to complete his queer retelling of American history, and it was still too short
After Weinstein, our trauma has turned to rage. Let's use it
Steph Harmon
#MeToo has women sharing their stories of sexual violence. Is this a social media blip or can it really be a watershed moment?
Ping-pong balls and 'displaced hussies': Taylor Mac's 24-hour epic begins in Melbourne
Tracing American history through popular song, Mac’s odyssey of queer culture rewards those who embrace confrontation
September 2017
Taylor Mac on queering history: 'Someone like me doesn't normally get to represent America'
Taylor Mac's Hir is more than a comedy about gender. It proves the potential of theatre
July 2017
'Look back to the stars': Taylor Mac's 24-hour music marathon to headline Melbourne festival
The playwright and performer was shortlisted for a Pulitzer for the work, which will form the centrepiece of Jonathan Holloway’s huge second festival
June 2017
Hir review – Taylor Mac throws the kitchen sink at the American dream
Gender roles and domestic politics are the targets for fierce satire in this savagely funny drama about a soldier who returns to a broken home
October 2016
Taylor Mac review – 24-hour-long pop show is everything
Lasting an entire day and night with no breaks, Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music contains multitudes, a ‘radical faerie realness ritual’ which reimagines an America created by outsiders
September 2016
Taylor Mac: how a 24-hour pop odyssey redefines American history
The best American theater shows for fall 2016
June 2016
Taylor Mac review – a glittering blast of musical subversion
The US drag artist raised the roof on the London international festival of theatre with a raucous opening night of songs, sequins and joyous misgendering
September 2008
Transatlantic Walters
Drag through a lens backwards
Ben Walters
Ben Walters takes a trip through cross-dressing history at Lincoln Center's Drag Show Video Vérité
