Holiday Sauce
Taylor Mac’s beloved annual holiday extravaganza is back and going on tour live in December 2025!
Christmas as Calamity! Taylor Mac’s beloved annual holiday extravaganza, Holiday Sauce blends music, film, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness in the most subversive and cathartic event of the season. Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac (who uses “judy” as a gender pronoun) invites long-time collaborators and surprise special guests to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. There is more to the holidays than rampant gift giving— in Taylor’s world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality. Taylor Mac reminds us of the collective power of our chosen families, a message that rings true in spite of capitalism’s attempt to hijack the holidays.
Since its premiere in 2017, gathering chosen family to watch Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce has become annual holiday tradition. When the COVID pandemic got in the way of touring plans, the show was reimagined as “a virtual vaudeville" and was broadcast to Taylor Mac’s international community.
We’re back in 2025, LIVE with new gifts under the tree and all your favorites from yesteryear!
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Conceived and Performed by
Taylor MacMusic Direction and Arrangement by
Matt RayScenic and Costume Design
Machine DazzleDirector Holiday Sauce Live
Niegel SmithCreative and Executive Producers
Pomegranate ArtsProduced by
Linda Brumbach & Alisa E. Regas -
Holiday Sauce was commissioned by Pomegranate Arts/Nature’s Darlings and The International Ibsen Festival, The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and The National Theatre of Oslo developed with additional support from the Ancram Opera House, Park Avenue Armory and the Barbican Centre.
UPCOMING
December 4 - 6, 2025
Duke Arts
Durham, NC
December 9, 2025
Charleston Gaillard Center
Charleston, CA
More dates coming soon!
Image Credits: Little Fang
“a present from the island of misfit toys”
— LA Times