It Is Magic

Houston Premiere

Ticket Price

We Suggest $35
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Location

MATCH
3400 Main St
Houston, TX 77002

Performances

Feb 9, 2024 -
Mar 2, 2024
“Things are getting crazy at the local Playhouse…”

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The Play

Deb and Sandy are auditioning Tim for the role of the Wolf in an adult adaptation of The Three Little Pigs, but there’s a mysterious haze in the basement of the Mortier Civic Playhouse and that, along with interruptions from the director of ‘the Scottish play’ that’s having its opening night upstairs, is making things, well, even hazier. Then the mysterious Liz shows up throwing the room into utter chaos and revealing the deep, ancient evil at the heart of the community theater audition process.
It Is Magic is the latest play by Mickle Maher, writer of such Catastrophic favorites as There Is a Happiness That Morning Is; The Hunchback Variations; Song About Himself; Spirits to Enforce; The Strangerer; Jim Lehrer, The Theatre and Its Double, and Jim Lehrer’s Double; and Catastrophic commissioned world premieres of The Pine and Small Ball, the latter of which was co-produced by former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey.
Directed by Catastrophic core artist Jeff Miller, whose past directing credits include Catastrophic hits Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, and Baby Screams Miracle. Miller also teamed with actor Luis Galindo to co-direct Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Book of Grace in 2022, in which Galindo also starred. The Houston Press hailed the production as a triumphant “resurgence of the magical power of theater.” It is Magic features an all-star cast of Catastrophic core artists: Amy Bruce, Tamarie Cooper, Dillon Dewitt, Luis Galindo, and Courtney Lomelo.

THE PLAYWRIGHT

MICKLE MAHER
Mickle Maher’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway and throughout the world. Catastrophic has produced a whopping 12 productions of his plays, some of them more than once: last season’s It Is Magic, Song About Himself, The Hunchback Variations, There Is a Happiness That Morning Is, The Strangerer, Jim Lehrer and The Theater and Its Double and Jim Lehrer’s Double, and the world premieres of The Pine and Small Ball, commissioned and co-produced by Catastrophic and former Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey. Maher is a co-founder of Chicago’s Theater Oobleck and has taught playwriting and related subjects at The University of Chicago, Columbia College, and Northwestern University. His plays are published by Hope and Nonthings.
  
“Maher [is] one of the most original voices in American theater today.” – Houston Chronicle

In the Media

Dark Comedy Brings Magic to Houston’s Catastrophic Theatre, Makes You Think About What You’d Do to Get In
February 21, 2024 | Paper City Magazine | Adrienne Jones
Will You Be The Wolf?
Dillon Dewitt in Mickle Maher's IT IS MAGIC. (Photo by Anthony Rathbun.)
Dillon Dewitt in Mickle Maher’s IT IS MAGIC. (Photo by Anthony Rathbun.)
Review: IT IS MAGIC at Catastrophic Theatre. I had no idea how much magic a theater company could make!
February 16, 2024 | Broadway World | Brett Cullum
“This is peak CATASTROPHIC THEATRE, and the entire production is on FULL TILT BOOGIE from start to finish. … It’s funny, it’s quirky, and it is unlike anything else you are likely to see anytime soon.”
Luis Galindo, Courtney Lomelo, Tamarie Cooper in IT IS MAGIC. (photo by Anthony Rathbun)
Luis Galindo, Courtney Lomelo, Tamarie Cooper in IT IS MAGIC. (photo by Anthony Rathbun)
IT IS MAGIC is a Weird Surprise and an Even Weirder Gift at The Catastrophic Theatre
February 10, 2024 | Houston Press | Natalie de la Garza
Courtney Lomelo, Amy Bruce and Tamarie Cooper in The Catastrophic Theatre's It Is Magic. Photo by Anthony Rathbun
Courtney Lomelo, Amy Bruce and Tamarie Cooper in The Catastrophic Theatre’s It Is Magic. Photo by Anthony Rathbun
‘Out, out, damned spot! Or I’ll blow your house down!’ – Listen to the KUHF Interview
February 9, 2024 | Houston Matters
“The Three Little Pigs” and “Macbeth” converge in Catastrophic Theatre’s production of Mickle Maher’s “It Is Magic.”
Interview: TAMARIE COOPER of IT IS MAGIC at Catastrophic Theatre
February 9, 2024 | Broadway World | Brett Cullum
We talk THEATRE, Mickle Maher, Drag Parties, and Pay What You Can with the Tamariest Tamarie!
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