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3400 Main St

Houston, TX 77002

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Nov 15, 2024 -

Dec 7, 2024

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3400 Main St

Houston, TX 77002

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Feb 7, 2025 -

Mar 1, 2025

WHERE WE GET TO JUST BE: HOUSTON’S CATASTROPHIC THEATRE PRESENTS QUEER PLAYWRIGHT MARIA IRENE FORNES’S ‘FEFU AND HER FRIENDS’

Feb 28, 2020 | Spectrum South | Addie Tsai
The conversation around gender and sexuality has considerably shifted since the 1970s, when queer Cuban playwright Maria Irene Fornes wrote her avant-garde feminist play Fefu and Her Friends, set in 1930s New England. America would see the legalization of marriage equality just three years before Fornes’s passing, and Merriam-Webster would name the gender-neutral pronoun “they” as
BWW Review: FEFU AND HER FRIENDS REIGN AT CATASTROPHIC THEATRE

Feb 28, 2020 | Broadway World | Suzanne Tidwell
In 1985, in cartoonist Alison Bechdel‘s comic strip DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR, two women discuss seeing a film. One character explains that she only goes to movies if they meet certain criteria – the movie has to have at least two women in it, who talk to each other, about something other than a man.
Even When the Audience Stays in its Seats, Fefu and Her Friends is Intense

Feb 20, 2020 | Houston Press | D.L. Groover
In 1935, seven girlfriends gather at Fefu’s luxurious country home in New England. The house is well appointed, looking like a Cedric Gibbons’ MGM fantasy torn from Norma Desmond’s imagination. Thank you designer Ryan McGettigan, for the skewed lintels, the wallpaper shreds of women through art history (Grant Wood’s American Gothic pinched pioneer wife; a