Due to events in her native country of Iran, The Catastrophic Theatre’s production of Afsaneh Aayani’s Romeos and Juliets has been indefinitely postponed.
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