When Taylor Mac takes the stage — or the mic — you’re not just in for a performance. You’re in for a reckoning. Grief, absurdity, and activism all collide in Mac’s world, where queer stories take center stage, and the line between calamity and communion is deliberately blurred.

Next week, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts welcomes the legendary artist for a conversation that promises to be as dazzling as it is disarming. A Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur “Genius,” and the first American to receive the International Ibsen Award, Mac has rewritten the rules of theatre with works like Hir, The Lily’s Revenge, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, and the jaw-dropping A 24-Decade History of Popular Music — a project so ambitious it makes most epics look like haikus.

For those curious about the future of theatre, the power of radical performance, or what it means to build joy out of wreckage, this talk is for us. Mac’s work is a glitter bomb for the soul. Don’t miss this chance to hear from one of American theatre’s most fearless and original voices.

Taylor Mac in conversation
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
500 S Goodwin
Urbana
Tu April 22 at 7:30 p.m.
Free, but tickets required