Thank you to our Host Committee: Jan Cato, Henrietta Alexander, Lucia Benton, Cullen Geiselman, and Emily Todd. Jennifer Ackerman will give a presentation on her book “The Genius of Birds”.Read more

Karen Stokes Dance celebrates 20 years with current and former members of the company. The evening will look back at highlights from last 20 years, while looking forward to the future with the premiere of “Mapping & Glaciers.”Read more

Support Harvey relief efforts by attending a concert presented by Apollo Chamber Players, Musiqa Houston, and Jazz Forever. All proceeds from this event will go towards the Harvey Relief Funds via Greater Houston Community Foundation and Catholic Charities Houston.Read more

A 20 piece improvising ensemble performed by musicians from Ensamble Cepromusic (Mexico City) and Nameless Sound Ensemble (Houston)Read more

Live storytelling series, Oral Fixation (An Obsession with True Life Tales), is bringing its “Out From Under The Rug: True Life Tales Of Abortion” series to Houston with the mission to eradicate stigma around abortion by providing a platform for sharing true, personal stories that have been swept under the rug for too long.Read more

Jacqui Sutton leads the Frontier Jazz Orchestra in a presentation of original jazz/bluegrass compositions, exploring the cross-pollination of these two uniquely American music forms.Read more

Tamarie is going on a field trip. But don’t expect to board a bus and take in the sights. This is a metaphysical field trip--musical theatre style!Read more

George W. Bush wants to kill PBS newsman Jim Lehrer. He wants to kill him right on the stage of his first presidential debate with John Kerry. A surreal reimagining of real events, THE STRANGERER delves deeply into the minds of the three characters, especially Bush, in surprising, often hilarious, and sometimes unsettling ways. This production reunites the cast of The Catastrophic Theatre’s 2008 production of THE STRANGERER, about which The Houston Chronicle wrote, “The Strangerer may be Theatre of the Absurd — yet it's also the funniest and most acutely meaningful example of the genre I've encountered in ages.”Read more

SMALL BALL is a new musical commissioned by Houston Rockets' General Manager, Daryl Morey. SMALL BALL tells the story of a melancholy journeyman basketball player who has recently become the star player for the Lilliput Existers—yes, Lilliput, the same one from Gulliver’s Travels—so his teammates are each six inches tall. It’s tough to pass a regulation size ball to a six-inch player, so the team hasn’t been doing too well, and the post-loss press conferences are getting rough. This surreal, magical musical features a book and lyrics by Catastrophic Theatre favorite Mickle Maher and original music by Merel Van Dijk and Anthony Barilla.Read more

Margie was raised to be a good girl, but Margie has a secret: she wants to be a lion. LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR traces one woman’s highly theatrical, time-hopping search for adventure, for love, and for her true self. Packed with wildly eccentric family members and unpredictable lovers, Margie’s journey is at turns uproariously funny and probingly melancholic. Two time Obie Award-winning playwright and director Craig Lucas says of LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR: “No one else is doing what Chana Porter is doing—unhinging logic and time from their outward solidity, revealing enduring landscapes within the scenes resembling life but doing it one better each time.”Read more