Press Quotes

“Quite entertaining” -- The New York Times

 

"If you're in search and/or in need of authentically edgy, exhilarating, and fearless musical theatre that can liberate the form from hidebound traditions and make it dangerous and relevant, then Taylor Mac's extraordinary new extravaganza "Red Tide Blooming" is the show you've been waiting for.”-- nytheater.com

 

"Taylor Mac's bawdy and exotic performance art takes aim at our culture's obsession with sameness and profitability, blending burlesque, spoken text, and dance to tweak gender and cultural cliches and create... an entertainingly freaky allegory of the evils of gentrification."  -- The New Yorker

Description:

In this musical celebration of freakhood, classic Mermaid Parade antics swim alongside a collective creative visualization of Armageddon in the murky waters of gentrification and cultural homogenization.  

 

Premiered at PS 122 as the first Ethyl Eichelberger Commissioning Award.



RED TIDE BLOOMING

Photo by McAdams