Join us for a free outdoor screening of Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music at World Trade Center’s North Oculus Plaza, presented in partnership with The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as part of their 2025 Oculus Outdoors movie series.

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music was a decade in the making and captures Mac’s lens on the entirety of US history from 1776 to the present day. The 24-hour live show, comprising over 240 songs and performed by Mac and a huge supporting cast, was performed only once in its entirety in Brooklyn, NY. Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman adapt this tour de force performance in all its righteous outrage and radical humanity in this feature-length documentary. Click here to watch the trailer.

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Credits
Taylor Mac – Playwright, performer, co-director
Matt Ray – Musical direction, arrangements, performer
Niegel Smith – Co-director
Machine Dazzle – Costume designer (2024 EMMY award for Outstanding Costumes For Variety, Nonfiction, Or Reality Programming)
Jocelyn Clarke – Dramaturg
Mimi Lien – Scenic design
John Torres – Lighting design
Anastasia Durasova – Makeup Design (2024 EMMY nominee for Outstanding Makeup For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program)

Taylor Mac is a MacArthur fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, a Tony nominee for Best Play, and the recipient of the International Ibsen Award.  Selected works include:  Taylor Mac & Matt Ray’s Bark of Millions; Joy and Pandemic; The Hang; The Fre; Gary:  A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; A 24-Decade History of Popular Music;  Hir; The Walk Across America for Mother Earth; The Lily’s Revenge; The Young Ladies Of; The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac; Red Tide Blooming; The Last Two People on Earth.  Films include Whitman in the Woods (dir. Noah Greenberg) and Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music (dir. by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, streaming onDecade Max).

Presented by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at the World Trade Center’s North Oculus Plaza, in partnership with LMCC, as part of the 2025 Oculus Outdoors series.

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music is presented by HBO Documentary Films in association with Content Superba, a Telling Pictures and Pomegranate Arts Production in association with Fifth Season and Nature’s Darlings. Directed and produced by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman; produced by Joel Stillerman, Linda Brumbach, Alisa E. Regas, Taylor Mac, Mari Rivera. Executive producers, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller; coordinating producer, Anna Klein.