we will destroy you...

"the powerful music is the best reason to see this show"

- Lee Williams, Houston Press

Life is Happy and Sad

"truly remarkable and engaging comedic writing"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Journey to the Center of My Brain in 3D

"Tamarie Cooper is notorious, legendary, and one of Houston’s bona fide star divas"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

The United States of Tamarie

"Matt Brownlie superbly shares the heart and guts of Daniel Johnston"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Life is Happy and Sad

"blissful goofiness"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

The Tamarie Cooper Show

"You won’t believe the power Nodler and his actors generate"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

- D.L. Groover, Houston Press

"leave it to Nodler to find tenderness in the most extraordinary ridiculousness"

- Nancy Wozny, Houston Arts Week

Hunter Gatherers

"reverberates with those bewildering, unanswerable questions of existence"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

"worth its weight in grins, chuckles and outright guffaws"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

The Tamarie Cooper Show

"get thy ass to Catastrophic Theatre"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

"blows the roof off"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

The United States of Tamarie

"an unusually intense and entertaining evening at the theater"

- Alex Gilbert, 29-95

Hunter Gatherers (2009)

"Catastrophic Theater lives up to their reputation"

- Joel Luks, Eccentric Adventures

"the latest success in an unbroken streak of solid productions at the Catastrophic Theatre"

- Kerri Foley, The LoopScoop

There Is a Happiness That Morning Is

"no stone is left unturned, no fire untended, no bridge not crossed, no possibility not realized"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Hunter Gatherers

"dreamlike and disturbing"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

"wickedly accurate"

- D.L. Groover, Houston Press

"this production is a savory treat in a season awash in sugar."

- Lee Williams, Houston Press

Spirits to Enforce

"hilarious and hysterical"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Journey to the Center of My Brain in 3D

"bound to get you out of any and all summer funks"

- Nancy Wozny, Houston Arts Week

Journey to the Center of My Brain in 3D

"the most dynamic and brilliant ensemble work of recent memory"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Anna Bella Eema

"Cooper keeps everything brisk and playful"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

Journey to the Center of My Brain in 3D

"in-your-face, raw, funny, tragic"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

"perfectness, as W. might say"

- D.L. Groover, Houston Press

"absolutely gorgeous"

- David Feil, Houstonist

"like scraps of some other-worldly, half-remembered dream"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

Anna Bella Eema

"the cast —all superb—each bring their own distinct variety of mania to their bizarre characters"

- Nancy Wozny, Dancehunter

Spirits to Enforce

"a pure distillation of craft"

- David Feil, Houstonist

The Designated Mourner

"Genuinely moving - devastating, even"

- Chris Gray, Houston Press

"we were hanging on every word"

- Marc Brubaker, Houstonist

Life is Happy and Sad

"the funniest grown-up play anyone's put on this season"

- Lee Williams, Houston Press

Hunter Gatherers (2009)

"uncomfortable and creepy"

- Joel Luks, Eccentric Adventures

"Schulze gives one of the most riveting and memorable performances of his stellar career"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

"bold and crazy"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

Spirits to Enforce

"a roller coaster of artistic anguish from The Catastrophic Theater"

- Marc Brubaker, Houstonist

Life is Happy and Sad

"performed by Kelly/Brood with more pathos than even Axl Rose could probably muster"

- Chris Gray, Houston Press

"another masterpiece in the company’s ever-mounting stack of successes"

- Abby Koenig, Arts+Culture Magazine

"Catastrophic lives up to its tag line, 'We will destroy you'"

- Nancy Wozny, Houston Arts Week

"Tamarie Cooper is truly one of Houston's most tremendously talented theatre treasures."

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Journey to the Center of My Brain in 3D

"inspired satire"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

Big Death and Little Death

"a fabulously wild and crazy ride"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

"Locklear delivers perfectly"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

"one of the best musical comedies performed in Houston for years"

- Alex Wukman, Free Press Houston

The United States of Tamarie

"Daniel's dreams come together in a hugely fabulous way"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Life is Happy and Sad

"wildly dangerous"

- Lee Williams, Houston Press

Hunter Gatherers

"dangerously impulsive and unmanageable"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

Anna Bella Eema

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Hunter Gatherers

"proves that Catastrophic knows how to produce great theatre"

- Buzz Bellmont, Chron Commons

Hunter Gatherers

"high-energy performances of the zany dance numbers"

- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

The Tamarie Cooper Show

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