by Jonathan Netek - April 23, 2026
Building Fences, Breaking Bonds: A Powerful Portrait of Family and Fallout...
by Jonathan Netek - April 17, 2026
Widely considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest works, and typically ranked alongside tragedies like Macbeth and Hamlet, OTHELLO explores themes of jealousy, racism, and the destructive nature of unchecked emotion. The play follows its title character, a Moorish general in the Venetian army, as he...
by Brett Cullum - April 14, 2026
AN IDEAL MAN is a fun spin on the source material, and it’s charming and affable in its delivery. I like the idea of the cast of DYNASTY suddenly being thrust into Oscar Wilde’s England via River Oaks....
by Brett Cullum - April 13, 2026
You really need a talented group of singers, and THE GARDEN THEATRE has put together a stacked cast of musical actors who have appeared in their shows over the last five years....
by Jonathan Netek - April 08, 2026
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the 6 wives of Henry VIII take the mic and remix 500 years of historical heartbreak into a euphoric celebration of 21st-century HERstory. ...
by Jonathan Netek - April 05, 2026
The best kind of group therapy, TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS at Stages Houston...
by Brett Cullum - April 01, 2026
Sir Tom Stoppard’s last play, LEOPOLDSTADT, is his most personal. He wrote a narrative loosely based on his own family, changed the location to Austria, and finally wrote a Jewish script. The show debuted in London in 2020 and ran on Broadway from 2022 to 2023. It garnered the Tony for best play t...
by Brett Cullum - March 28, 2026
The whole show is well-produced, well-acted, and a lot of fun to watch. It’s endearing, funny, and it actually speaks to something deeper than you would expect....
by Jonathan Netek - March 25, 2026
Winner of four Tony Awards, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, Some Like It Hot is set in Chicago during Prohibition, when everyone is thirsty for a little excitement. ...
by Brett Cullum - March 17, 2026
Director Rob Melrose certainly knows how to pick actors and designers who know their craft and live it, while the rest merely exist....
Past Shows
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...
“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...
A fuzzy-edged sibling drama for the only child. WORLD PREMIERE.
“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...
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 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...
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...
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 Fathom...
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...
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...
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...
(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 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 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 multidisciplinary, immersive...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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