An Evening from the Queer Songbook: A Conversation with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray New York Performances

At BAM, playwright and performer Taylor Mac joins musician Matt Ray for a talk-and-song program drawn from the Queer Songbook. Mac, a MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the Ibsen Award, frames the material through stories about chosen family, performance as survival, and the rituals that gather people through the holiday season. The event is free, closer to a public conversation than a standard concert. One clear takeaway is how Mac treats the songbook as an archive of community memory, not just repertoire.