FeaturedTamarie's Greatest Hits, Volume 3
As every good Houstonian knows, Tamarie Cooper creates wholly original, full-scale musicals every dang summer—a Houston institution featuring wildly irreverent scripts, riotously funny songs, wackadoodle...
The Catastrophic Theatre
3400 Main StreetHouston, TX 77002
Upcoming Shows
Review: THE GONDOLIERS at Gilbert And Sullivan Society Of Houston
A delightful evening of wit, charm, and impeccable musicianship awaits audiences at the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston's production of The Gondoliers. Long before Broadway became synonymous with the American musical, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were redefining what musical storytelling…
Review: CHALLENGING BROWN at Shabach Enterprises
You will leave with many questions about how we deal with our past and how we can move forward socially while personally constrained.…
Review: MOULIN ROUGE! at Broadway At The Hobby Center
Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed into a musical mash-up extravaganza. Directed by Tony Award winner Alex Timbers, MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL is a theatrical celebration of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and, above all, Love.…
Review: BROADWAY AND BEYOND: CELEBRATING 30 SHOWS WITH HOLLAND VAVRA at STAGES
One of Houston's defining strengths is its vibrant performing arts community. In a city filled with exceptional talent, only a select few artists earn the distinction of becoming local icons. Holland Vavra is unquestionably one of them. …
Review: HOLLAND VAVRA: BROADWAY AND BEYOND at Stages Houston
Holland Vavra has been a member of Houston’s theatre community since before she was born. Yes, you read that right: her first stage appearance was in utero, while her mother performed in Pippin, a show Vavra herself would later appear in more than once.…
Review: GET READY at The Ensemble Theatre
A soulful finale to close out the 49th season…
Review: TAMARIE'S GREATEST HITS VOLUME 3 at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE
She’s a good time gal, and we need her more than ever with all the bad time boys running the world today. Let freedom ring, and let Tamarie sing! 250 years of America, and 30 of those with Tamarie out there.…
Review: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Houston Broadway Theatre
The Bells Ring Loud Through The Wortham.…
Review: FADE TO BLACK at Shabach Enterprise
You get an entire evening of short bursts of brilliance, kinda like a fireworks show to commemorate Juneteenth. This year, all ten entries are extremely solid in both what they say and who says them.…
Review: WAITING / REX at ISHIDA
ISHIDA DANCE had a world premiere with their presentation of waiting / REX at the Asia Society Texas Center. This program is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex. Both are choreographed by the company’s artistic director.…
Past Shows
FeaturedTHE DESIGNATED MOURNER
Jack, his former wife Judy, and her famous poet father Howard relate the story of an authoritarian country which has targeted its cultural intelligentsia for imprisonment...
FeaturedKaty Perry Candy Darling Mary Magdalene
“What about all the in-betweens?”Rock and roll was invented by corporations to sell cars and sex to teenagers. Indie rock was invented by teenagers who...
FeaturedBeautiful Princess Disorder
A fuzzy-edged sibling drama for the only child. WORLD PREMIERE.
FeaturedENDGAME by Samuel Beckett
“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, his...
Another Ding Dang Tamarie Show
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...
FeaturedFrozen Section
A post-apocalyptic comedy with a side of existential dreadThe Catastrophic Theatre presents the World Premiere ofFROZEN SECTION by Lisa D’Amour, Directed by Jason Nodler.“Welcome to Tyler’s, where a stranger is...
FeaturedMiss LaRaj's House of Dystopian Futures
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?In...
FeaturedLOVE BOMB
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.
FeaturedSpirits to Enforce
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 Fathom...
FeaturedTamarie's Texas Toast!
The Catastrophic Theatre presents the World Premiere of TAMARIE’S TEXAS TOASTby Tamarie Cooper and Patrick ReynoldsJune 21 through August 3 at MATCH(Midtown Arts & Theatre Center...
FeaturedCLEANSED
Regional Premiere of Sarah Kane’sCLEANSEDApril 5 through April 27"LOVE ME OR KILL ME"Written by the most notorious playwright of the late 20th century, CLEANSED is perhaps the...
FeaturedIt Is Magic
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 the role of...
The Turn of the Screw
(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 by...
Waiting for Godot
WAITING FOR GODOTby Samuel Beckett"We are all born mad. Some remain so."Beckett’s absurdist, tragicomic masterwork in which two penniless tramps stand waiting on a country...
Tamarie's Totally True Revue (plus lies too!)
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 Maroon's Guide to Time and Space
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 multidisciplinary, immersive...
FeaturedEddie Goes to Poetry City
Eddie Goes to Poetry Cityby Richard Foremandirected by Greg Dean“You’re a mirror, Eddie.”Eddie dreams of escape—from cruel co-workers, a doctor who is not a doctor,...
They Do Not Move
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 Jucha’s THEY...
THEY DO NOT MOVE
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 in which...
Tamarie 20/20
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...
Fefu and Her Friends
"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...
The Book of Grace
"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...
Baby Screams Miracle
"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...
Tragedy, A Tragedy
"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...
Speeding Motorcycle
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
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...
Bootycandy
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,...
First Suburb
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...
Song About HImself
Mickle Maher; dir: Jason Nodler....
Buried Child
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...
Tamarie For President (Greatest Hits, Vol. 2)
Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper, Patrick Reynolds; lyrics: Tamarie Cooper, Miriam Daly, Joe Folladori, DeWitt Gravink, Patrick Reynolds....
Everything Will Be Different: A Brief History of Helen of Troy
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...
The Danube
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...
The University of Tamarie
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...
The Hunchback Variation
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...
The Blackest Shore
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...
clean/through
Miki Johnson; dir: Jason Nodler....
Marie and Bruce
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...
The Pine
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...
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2026 Annual Festival of Originals (The FOO) Theatre Southwest (7/24-8/08) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat A.D. Players at the George Theater (6/24-8/02) |
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Tamarie's Greatest Hits, Volume 3 The Catastrophic Theatre (6/19-8/01) |
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To The Bone Theatre Southwest (5/28-6/19) |
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Therapy Gecko Punch Line Houston (9/20-9/20) |
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Newsies National Youth Theater (7/31-8/09) |
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Jesus Christ Superstar Deluxe Theatre (8/14-8/17) |
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Ed Sheeran at AT&T Stadium AT&T Stadium (10/24-10/24) |
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AC/DC NRG Stadium (8/31-8/31) |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Theatre Southwest (1/02-1/23) |