Performance

HIStory

1 upcoming performance in New York

At Westbury Music Fair, *HIStory* frames Michael Jackson’s career as a record of performance, image, and pop authorship, drawn from rock and pop staging conventions. The title nods to “history” in its broader sense: not just the past, but the stories built from it, and the arguments they carry. In a New York–area context, it sits alongside the city’s ongoing Jackson afterlife, from arena retrospectives to the Broadway narrative of *MJ the Musical*. The show’s clearest strength is its attention to how spectacle can function as biography, even when the person remains contested.