Pulitzer Prize-Winnng Sam Shepard‘s CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS displays the lives of the working-class Tate family as they navigate everything from suffocating debt, to teenage crime, to marital distress and back again. Checking the fridge for food (that is never there) is a regular routine-turned-ritual in this household that is deteriorating from the inside out.
Today’s theater world is a fallow place. There are no recent playwrights whose work commands respect and opening-night buzz like those of theatrical Rushmore icons Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Harold Pinter, Christopher Durang. August Wilson, Sam Shepard, even Neil Simon. Granted, Durang and Stoppard are not yet Old Dead Playwrights but their output has been
September 4, 2018 For immediate release Contact: Shayna Schlosberg Managing Director Shayna.schlosberg@catastrophictheatre.com 713-522-2723×3 The Catastrophic Theatre presents Sam Shepard’s timely avant-garde classic Curse of the Starving Class The Catastrophic Theatre begins its 2018-2019 Season by celebrating the influential playwright on the one-year anniversary of his death (Houston, TX) On the heels of the one