First thing’s first. If you’re going to see Chana Porter’s First Suburb over at Catastrophic, I hope you like the ‘90s. Set sometime in the early ‘90s, in a “village” named Dickinson (after Emily) within a planned community, 11-year-old Miriam and her friends are growing up. There’s Miriam’s best frenemy Cyndi, who’s “pretty … and mean”; Miriam’s
IMAGE: COURTESY OF CATASTROPHIC THEATRE WHEN CATASTROPHIC THEATRE COMPANY did the world premiere of Chana Porter’s Leap and the Net Will Appear last season, it was a bona fide success, earning a nomination for Best New Production from the Houston Press Theatre Awards. Little wonder then that the always-innovating company was eager to present another Porter world premiere, the