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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

Performances

Feb 7, 2025 -

Mar 1, 2025

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
Catastrophic Theatre’s Fefu and Her Friends Tells a Tale of Sisterhood

Feb 20, 2020 | Houstonia | Holly Beretto
FEFU AND HER FRIENDS IS A POWERFUL EXAMINATION OF WOMANHOOD, says Julia Oppenheim Traber, director of Catastrophic Theatre’s current production of the María Irene Fornés avant-garde play, which runs through Mar 8. Split into three parts that chronicle the course of a day, Fefu follows a group of 1930s women as they gather at their friend’s home to