Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

Taylor Mac’s beloved annual holiday extravaganza, Holiday Sauce blends music, 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 (including Matt Ray as music director with looks and appearances from Machine Dazzle) 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. Holiday Sauce is produced by Pomegranate Arts.

Holiday Sauce includes adult themes, humor, and language.

Meet the New Haven Holiday Sauce Queen! 

At each Holiday Sauce performance, we crown a local "Holiday Sauce Queen" to honor our community elders. Please nominate someone who has advocated for the LGBTQ+ community or impacted LGBTQ+ advocates in Greater New Haven. 

This recognition is made in collaboration with New Haven Pride Center, Yale Repertory Theater, Yale Pride Center, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and Yale Schwarzman Center.