Playwright-performance-artist-and-drag-queen Taylor Mac is opening a two-week run of The  Be(A)st of Taylor Mac, at the Undermain Theatre tonight.  He calls his touring, one-man show “a subversive jukebox musical,” and this’ll be his first performance in Texas — where his father was from (Abilene).

The Be(A)st just finished two days at Yale Rep, which got a  “Critic’s Notebook” tout from Hilton Als in the latest issue of  The New Yorker (“an intellectually arduous and beautifully realized piece”), complete with this portrait by Mercedes Lagunas.