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THE CATASTROPHIC THEATRE

3400 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002

CLEANSED
CLEANSED
4/5 - 4/27/2024


The Catastrophic Theatre presents the Regional Premiere of Sarah Kane’s CLEANSED April 5 through April 27 at MATCH   "LOVE ME OR KILL ME" In ...


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Interview: TAMARIE COOPER of IT IS MAGIC at Catastrophic Theatre


by Brett Cullum - February 09, 2024

If you have ever gone out for a job interview, gone on a first date, or just put yourself out there for something you really wanted. Then you can relate to this play, and you can specifically relate to the power of “No,” which is certainly one of the themes in the play. Mickle's work is always very ...

Review: THE TURN OF THE SCREW messes with the truth at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE


by Brett Cullum - November 22, 2023

But one thing I promise you, you have never seen it done like this before. And you probably won’t ever get another chance to see something quite this inventive in any given year of Houston theater. This is a thrill to witness, and unlike anything out there. It manages to be THE BLAIR WITCH of stage ...

Previews: Mixed Media presentation of THE TURN OF THE SCREW at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE


by Brett Cullum - November 17, 2023

THE TURN OF THE SCREW is an idea that I've been interested in presenting theatrically for quite some time. And I think it is actually very relevant right now, because we're having these huge cultural conversations about truth and alternate versions of truth. And how people create their own truth and...

Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at CATASTROPHIC THEATRE


by Brett Cullum - October 04, 2023

You are never going to see a more definitive version of this show in Houston, and CATASTROPHIC is the company to bring it to you....

Review: TAMARIE'S TOTALLY TRUE REVUE (PLUS LIES TOO!) at The Catastrophic Theatre


by Brett Cullum - June 25, 2023

You see this year is all about truth and honesty, and examining what that means to Tamarie and her squad. Onstage there is a lie detector, and throughout the evening truths are revealed as are lies. And somehow highlights include dancing poop, Aristotle, an 80s PSA star, Tinkerbell, George Washingto...

TAMARIE'S TOTALLY TRUE REVUE (PLUS LIES TOO!) Premieres June 23rd at The MATCH!


by A.A. Cristi - June 05, 2023

It's officially summer which means it's Tamarie Time! The Tamarie Cooper Show has, for years, been a cult hit and can't-miss Houston summer tradition. ...

The World Premiere of A MAROON'S GUIDE TO TIME & SPACE Comes to Houston in May


by Stephi Wild - April 20, 2023

The latest new work from Houston writer, actor, and director Candice D’Meza is a multidisciplinary, immersive theatre piece that blends live performance, music, video, and omniscient cosmic forces to travel the future-telling visions and seizure-fever dreams of heroic abolitionist and conductor of t...

The Catastrophic Theatre's Production of Sarah Kane's CLEANSED Canceled Due To Unforeseen Tragedy


by A.A. Cristi - March 27, 2023

The Catastrophic Theatre's production of Sarah Kane's CLEANSED, scheduled to open this Friday, March 31, has been canceled due to the sudden, untimely death of a beloved cast member. ...

The Catastrophic Theatre to Present Regional Premiere of CLEANSED By Sarah Kane


by Blair Ingenthron - March 18, 2023

In a former university, society's “undesirables” are subjected to a series of tortures designed to test the limits of human love on the battlefield of the human body. Explosively aching, hauntingly poetic, and disarmingly tender, CLEANSED is a fever-dream fable of unimaginable brutality and miraculo...

Review: The Very Trippy EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY At Catastrophic Theatre


by Brett Cullum - February 14, 2023

You won’t find a more technically stunning or well acted show in Houston right now. There is a lot to recommend EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY, but with one caveat. It will seem presentational and all stylistic performance rather than anything linear or narrative. If you love abstract or absurd theater y...

Past Shows

It Is Magic
It Is Magic
2/9 - 3/2/2024


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 Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
11/17 - 12/9/2023


(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
Waiting for Godot
9/29 - 10/14/2023


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'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 ...

Eddie Goes to Poetry City
Eddie Goes to Poetry City
2/10 - 3/4/2023


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 ...

They Do Not Move
They Do Not Move
1/9 - 2/6/2023


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 ...

THEY DO NOT MOVE
THEY DO NOT MOVE
11/18 - 12/10/2022


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 ...

Tamarie 20/20
Tamarie 20/20
6/25 - 8/9/2020


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
Fefu and Her Friends
4/3 - 4/26/2020


"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
The Book of Grace
2/14 - 3/8/2020


"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
Baby Screams Miracle
11/22 - 12/15/2019


"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
Tragedy, A Tragedy
9/27 - 10/20/2019


"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
Speeding Motorcycle
6/28 - 8/4/2019


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 ...

TBA
6/28 - 8/4/2019


Imaginists Theatre Collective: -...

Toast
Toast
4/12 - 5/5/2019


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
Bootycandy
2/15 - 3/10/2019


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, ...

Wakey, Wakey
1/24 - 2/3/2019


Quintero Theatre: Will Eno....

First Suburb
First Suburb
11/15 - 12/9/2018


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 ...

First Suburb
11/16 - 12/9/2018


Chana Porter. World Premiere...

Curse of the Starving Class
9/28 - 10/21/2018


Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class is a darkly comic look into the world of dysfunctional Tate family, as they struggle amongst themselves for ...

On Tour with Tamarie
6/28 - 8/11/2018


Matchbox3: Tamarie Cooper; dir: Tamarie Cooper....


Chana Porter; dir: Tara Ahmadinejad. Matchbox3:...

Evening at the Talkhouse
9/29 - 10/21/2017


Wallace Shawn; dir: Shade Murray....


Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper; book: Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper; lyrics: Ronnie Blaine, Tamarie Cooper; dir: Tamarie Cooper. World Premiere...

Snow White
4/7 - 5/6/2017


Mirror, mirror on the wall, from apple to queen, Ensemble Theatre's Snow White has is it all! From the creators of last year's smash hit ...

Trevor
2/10 - 3/3/2017


Trevor was once a minor celebrity, performing on television opposite the likes of Morgan Fairchild, but lately the spotlight has eluded him. At home he ...

Song About HImself
11/11 - 12/3/2016


Mickle Maher; dir: Jason Nodler....

Song About HImself
11/11 - 12/3/2016


Mickle Maher; dir: Jason Nodler....

Buried Child
9/9 - 10/1/2016


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
9/9 - 10/1/2016


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....

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
The Danube
9/25 - 10/17/2015


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
The University of Tamarie
7/17 - 8/29/2015


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
The Hunchback Variation
4/10 - 5/2/2015


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
The Blackest Shore
2/13 - 3/7/2015


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
2/7 - 3/1/2014


Miki Johnson; dir: Jason Nodler....

Marie and Bruce
Marie and Bruce
11/22 - 12/14/2013


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
The Pine
9/27 - 10/19/2013


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 ...

Videos


Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas & Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in Houston Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas & Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia
Morrison Theater at Brockman Hall for Opera (4/5 - 4/7)
The Music Man Jr in Houston The Music Man Jr
National Youth Theater (4/26 - 4/28)
The Cher Show in Houston The Cher Show
Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (4/16 - 4/28)
Disney’s The Lion King in Houston Disney’s The Lion King
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (7/11 - 8/4)
Live at the Founders Club: The Music of Billy Joel & Elton John starring Michael Cavanaugh in Houston Live at the Founders Club: The Music of Billy Joel & Elton John starring Michael Cavanaugh
The Hobby Center for Performing Arts (4/4 - 4/5)
The Dining Room
Cast Theatrical Company (4/5 - 4/21)
The Music Man Jr in Houston The Music Man Jr
National Youth Theater (4/26 - 4/28)
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