Celebrate the breadth, depth and diversity of dance in Greater Houston and beyond June 6-10 during Barnstorm Dance Fest . Presented by Dance Source Houston , the annual festival features 3 unique programs offering live performance and dance-on-film works by local choreographers and companies, as well as dancemakers from across the state and country.Read more
The Gospel Wiz is an entertaining and inspiring gospel stage production like no other. Our unique twist on the classic story will take you on an emotional journey with Houston‘s finest singers dancers and performers. Audiences of all ages will be delighted as they laugh, cry, and sing along to some of their favorite inspirational gospel songs. We invite you to join us for an uplifting and encouraging experience.Read more
The latest work by local interdisciplinary theatre artist Candice D’Meza is a genre blending, experiential exploration of the quantum mechanics that use imagination to liberate oneself from the confines of linear time. A thematic continuation of D’Meza’s surreal, Afrofuturist film series 30 Ways to Get Free , also produced by Catastrophic, A Maroon’s Guide uses film, technology, performance, and audience imagination to create the perfect environment to escape into space—where a new and better world is waiting for us.
A Maroon’s Guide is D’Meza’s third original performance piece, following Fatherland at Stages, 30 Ways to Get Free , and Wail at Diverseworks Artspace. A consummate theatre artist and self-described “artivist,” D’Meza’s first performed at Catastrophic in 2014 but she has dazzled on most Houston stages and her acting plaudits are many. As a creator of new work for the theatre, her star is on a meteoric rise.Read more
When the large Weston family unexpectedly reunites after patriarch Dad up and disappears, their Oklahoman family homestead explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets. A vanished father, a pill-popping mother, and three sisters harboring shady little secrets becomes a mixture of brutal honesty and hurtful truth as old wounds reopen and new ones form. Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for best play that same year, August: Osage County examines how people function within dysfunction.Read more
