Meet the Gender-Bending Costume Designer Who’s Re-creating Queer History

“To me, it’s more important to get a good idea on stage rather than a finished product,” Dazzle said. “I like to say that my costumes give direction to what the performance is.”

 

 

Machine Dazzle Embodies a New Kind of Surrealism

A decade or so ago, I spent a fair amount of time with three friends who shared a loft in the East Village. Because all three were performers, I nicknamed the loft and its inhabitants the Footlights Club, in honor of Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman’s 1936 play, “Stage Door,” about aspiring actresses boarding together...

 

 

Performer returns with epic ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music’ production

After Taylor Mac’s marathon performance A 24-Decade History of Popular Music in Brooklyn last year, the New York Times‘ Wesley Morris called it “one of the great experiences of my life.” The groundbreaking art concert is Mac’s subjective history of the United States told through 246 songs