THE CATASTROPHIC THEATRE

“You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.” An apocalypse has engulfed the world outside. A single interior stands shelter to the blind tyrant Hamm, ...

For 28 straight years Tamarie Cooper has created all-new, smash-hit musicals. Maybe that’s why everyone’s always saying, “It wouldn’t be summer in Houston without a ...

A post-apocalyptic comedy with a side of existential dread The Catastrophic Theatre presents the World Premiere of FROZEN SECTION by Lisa D’Amour, Directed by Jason Nodler. “Welcome to Tyler’s, where ...

In a world where civilization and the environment that birthed it has been decimated by myriad human-made cruelties, the question remains: will humans ever learn? ...

An experimental new musical featuring songs from 1970’s icon, Melanie. You’re invited into the dance hall where there’s nothing people won’t do to find love.

A group of telefundraisers attempt to raise money for an upcoming production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest , to be performed by local superhero team “The ...

The Catastrophic Theatre presents the World Premiere of  TAMARIE’S TEXAS TOAST by Tamarie Cooper and Patrick Reynolds June 21 through August 3 at MATCH (Midtown ...

Regional Premiere of Sarah Kane’s CLEANSED April 5 through April 27 "LOVE ME OR KILL ME" Written by the most notorious playwright of the late ...

IT IS MAGIC by Mickel Maher, Directed by Jeff Miller “Things are getting crazy at the local Playhouse…” Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for ...

(World Premiere)  The Turn of the Screw is a new environmental and multimedia theatrical adaptation of the celebrated Gothic ghost story of the same name ...

WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett "We are all born mad. Some remain so." Beckett’s absurdist, tragicomic masterwork in which two penniless tramps stand waiting ...

Tamarie and her cast of musical comedy maniacs are back for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the 26th installment ...

A Groundbreaking, Mind-expanding Exploration of Afrofuturism “This is not a play.” The latest new work from Houston writer, actor, and director Candice D’Meza is a ...

Eddie Goes to Poetry City by Richard Foreman directed by Greg Dean “You’re a mirror, Eddie.” Eddie dreams of escape—from cruel co-workers, a doctor who ...

The Catastrophic Theatre is  pleased to open up some treasures from their video vault for you to explore! First up, the world premiere of Brian ...

Using found text, music, stylized physicality, and an abundance of pop culture references  They Do Not Move  winds its way through an imagined American future ...

After a 2019 hiatus, Tamarie and her merry band of misfits are back again with an all-new, ridiculous, riotous musical! Escape the summer heat with ...

"Life is theatre. Theatre is life. If we're showing what life is, can be, we must do theatre."A signature work of feminist theatre by a ...

"Sometimes the Alien is right in your own home. Sometimes right in your own blood. And you've got to build a wall around it."Grace is ...

"The weather has been bad since the beginning of time."With BABY SCREAMS MIRACLE, The Catastrophic Theatre introduces Houston audiences to one of the most exciting ...

"It's the worst world in the world here tonight, Frank."Reporting live on an unfolding crisis, Frank in the Studio is aided by his team of ...

An all-time Catastrophic favorite returns! The original rock opera, based entirely on the songs of legendary outsider musician and artist Daniel Johnston, was originally performed ...

TOAST takes audiences on a raucous and mind-bending journey through Dantes Nine Circles of Hell! This original, collectively-realized work brings together eight members of Catastrophics ...

Robert OHaras semi-autobiographical and wildly subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, a young gay black man on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, ...

Five preteens teeter on the brink of adolescence when a shocking and violent act interrupts their insular world of personal struggles and triumphs. Catastrophic favorite ...

Mickle Maher; dir: Jason Nodler....

Mickle Maher; dir: Jason Nodler....

Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national ...

Buried Child is a play by Sam Shepard first presented in 1978. It won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and launched Shepard to national ...

Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper, Patrick Reynolds; lyrics: Tamarie Cooper, Miriam Daly, Joe Folladori, DeWitt Gravink, Patrick Reynolds....

Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper, Patrick Reynolds; lyrics: Tamarie Cooper, Miriam Daly, Joe Folladori, DeWitt Gravink, Patrick Reynolds....

Teenage Charlotte's beautiful mother is dead. Turning for comfort to the story of Helen of Troy, Charlotte is convinced that beauty, desire and fame can ...

American businessman Paul visits Budapest and quickly falls in love with native Eve. As the play makes its way through a militaristic fever-dream, the characters ...

This summer, school's in session at the University of Tamarie! Tamarie takes on the Texas State Board of Education, drama departments, high school memories, schoolyard ...

In The Hunchback Variations, noted composer Ludwig Van Beethoven and noted hunchback Quasimodo team up to chair a panel on sound design. More specifically they ...

Stuart, 16, is making a movie: graphic violence, extreme sex, the walking dead. Of course it's also a love story. And it's all true. In ...

Miki Johnson; dir: Jason Nodler....

The Catastrophic Theatre’s love of Wallace Shawn is well documented by its hit productions of Our Late Night and The Designated Mourner, each of which ...

This one’s been a long time in the making and we’ve been talking it up since The MAP Fund awarded Catastrophic a grant to commission ...