Tamarie Cooper's Golden Jubilee
The 24th installment of the Tamarie Cooper Show, a highly popular series of original musicals, is back this summer as a virtual extravaganza, streaming August 13 through September 5.Read more
The 24th installment of the Tamarie Cooper Show, a highly popular series of original musicals, is back this summer as a virtual extravaganza, streaming August 13 through September 5.Read more
We Interrupt this Program to bring you NobleMotion live and in-person with a playful new evening of dance theater. In this strange and wacky production, an illogical chain of events unfolds, making way for unexpected outcomes. Line dancing, human sling-shots, and NobleMotion’s trademark physicality keep the audience guessing as dancers careen through the space. It’s a comedy of non-sequiturs with heartfelt moments tangled in-between.Read more
Orchestral rock group Montopolis performs "The Living Coast", a gorgeous nature film, dynamic storytelling and live music experience that explores the Texas gulf coast. Montopolis features members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Texas' best rock musicians touring with environmental scientist Wendy Gordon as narrator. This show is a love letter to the region as well as an opportunity to discuss broader environmental challenges. All ticket sales donated to the Citizens' Environmental Coalition and the Matagorda Bay Foundation.Read more
Rose Goff has done it again! Another Production! And her cast has a way of bringing much laughter to the audience in the hilarious Stage Play, Some Things You Just Can’t Fix. When 4 roommates try figuring out if living with one another was really the best choice, it calls for questioning friendship, bad decisions, finances or just plain regret especially when there are convenient maintenance men who does it all to make things better for the roommates living arrangements.Read more
TENDERLY, THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL offers a fresh, remarkably personal, and poignant picture of the woman whose unparalleled talent and unbridled personality made her a legend. With her signature songs woven in and out, we learn both the story of her successes on film, radio, and TV, as well as her struggles in her personal life – with a fading career during the advent of rock-and-roll and her struggles with personal relationships and depression. Audiences stand and cheer as they rejoice at her triumphant comeback and even more successful career as a jazz singer!Read more
There's no better place to take your date on Monday, February 14, 2021 than the MATCH, where jazz singer and songwriter Raquel Cepeda will host her sixth consecutive “Jazz on Valentine’s” concert. This annual Houston tradition plays to a consistently packed house, and has become an alluring trademark of Cepeda's ever-expanding artistry. Read more
ISHIDA Dance Company is a new world-class contemporary dance company for Texas featuring venerated dancers from many of the top companies in the world (Ballet BC, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, LINES Ballet, RUBBERBANDance Group, Göteborgs Operans Danskompani, and Netherlands Dans Theater). ISHIDA blends contemporary dance with theatrical elements while retaining the physicality and beauty of the human form from traditional ballet. ISHIDA presents unique narratives relevant to a modern audience that explore archetypal themes and invite existential questions: Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? Such works enable audiences to gather meaning and emotional connection. ISHIDA’s poetic narratives prompt introspection to lead to greater kindness towards oneself and otherness.Read more
Drawn from interviews from students in Houston and NYC, Robert D. Jackson uses documentary solo performance to magnify the challenges students face navigating high school and young adulthood as artists and activist. A combination of spoken word, poetry and musical performances will take place and will be livestream for the general public.
The Catastrophic Theatre is proud to present the premiere of 30 Ways To Get Free, written by Candice D’Meza and directed by Nate Edwards. 30 Ways To Get Free is a series of three Afrofuturist micro-films that position abolition and liberation through the lens of science fiction. By exploring the worlds of spontaneous combustion, mermaids, trans-dimensional cell phones, and alien abductions, the films center on three of an unlimited number of ways Black people may triumphantly enter a free new world of their own imagining.
Catastrophic is thrilled to be producing Candice D’Meza’s first film script and excited to collaborate with notable filmmaker Nate Edwards. The stellar cast features veteran actors Anthony August, Candice D’Meza, Byron Jacquet, Anna Maria Morris, and Jet Tettey. The film’s production crew includes director of photography Nicholas Lloyd, assistant director Jamar Hawkins, wardrobe designer Joy Cohen, and production designer Ruby Amare. The films are edited by Nate Edwards and Nicholas Lloyd, with sound and special effects by Tim Thomson.
Read moreThe Women Have Something to Say tells the stories of women finding their voices through monologues and song texts written by the musicians themselves and set to music by composer Madeline Styskal. Read more