BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS DISORDER by Kathy Ng is many things, including beautiful, weird, funny, sad, touching, and completely random. It is extremely well-acted by a trio of actors, and the design is next-level impressive. Director Jason Nodler unleashes an amazing world premiere from Catastrophic Theatre, continuing their legacy as one of the nation’s most important producers
There are plays that feel grounded in reality, and then there are plays that rocket-launch themselves into parts unknown. Beautiful Princess Disorder, the world premiere from playwright Kathy Ng (she/they) at The Catastrophic Theatre, belongs unabashedly to the latter. Billed as “a fuzzy-edged sibling drama for the only child,” the production opens the gates to a
Here it is the day after Kathy Ng’s World Premiere of Beautiful Princess Disorder at Catastrophic Theatre and the vertigo from the mood swings is still hanging around. Beautiful Princess Disorder might not be in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but maybe it should be. Or maybe you will just know it