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4worldlovers: Experience seriously good live music performed by folks who don’t take themselves too seriously.

Enjoy a variety of songs you know from across the decades interspersed with an incomparable comic sensibility.

“The Fab 5 who rule over The Music Box Theater are Houston musical treasures. Consummate entertainers, they sing, act, and dance in sparkling intimate cabaret revues that glorify their prodigious talents, their warm camaraderie among each other and the audience, and their showbiz chops. They love to perform and it shows. They are so good.”

“There is nothing in Houston that even compares to the musical performance that you get when visiting The Music Box Theater. Each visit is a new sensation of sound, song and comedy. The performers are all in their selves each special and bring to the group a harmony of song and wit that is outstanding.”

“The Music Box band sails through jazz, pop and rock n roll with equal finesse and an unfailing theatrical style that is one of a kind “

4worldlovers: America’s largest interactive comedy murder mystery dinner theatre show is now playing! Solve a hilarious mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The culprit is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it!

Join us for an event that is very different from a traditional murder mystery dinner show. Our actors are not dressed in costume and are hidden in the audience! This results in a fun, social and interactive evening suitable for all adults.

4worldlovers: The Gus S. Wortham Theater Center was built at the height of the 1980's oil bust and funded entirely by the private sector. More than 3,500 donors contributed $66 million to build a new performing arts mecca amid a period of job losses and recession. It was a true community effort -- 2,200 individuals gave $100 or less.


What's more, the 437,500-square foot facility was completed four months ahead of schedule and $5 million under budget, a testament to Houston's trademark ability to get things done. At the time, Wortham Center was the first major opera house built in the U.S. in more than 25 years.


The building is the legacy of the late Gus S. Wortham, the founder of American General Insurance Company whose foundation contributed $20 million to the capital campaign. The Cullen Foundation and the Brown Foundation donated $7.5 million and $6 million, respectively, in a demonstration of the collective strength of Houston's philanthropic spirit.

The Wortham Center is home to Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. Since its opening in 1987, Wortham has entertained more than 8 million people.

Bold and beautiful, the Wortham is a facility like no other. It is a masterful, creative playground for performing artists and offers an array of public spaces, both monumental and intimate. Eugene Aubry of Morris Aubry Architects designed the Wortham Center.

The Wortham Center has two theaters, the Alice and George Brown Theater and the Lillie and Roy Cullen Theater.

At 2,405 seats, the Brown is the larger theater with a 17,000-square foot stage used primarily for major performances by our resident companies, Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. Despite its size, no seat is more than 138 feet from the stage.

The 1,100-seat Cullen Theater hosts smaller opera and ballet productions and serves other arts groups, such as Da Camera of Houston, Mercury, and Society for the Performing Arts. Its intimate size is ideal for solo artists, chamber music, small touring shows and recitals.

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4worldlovers: After a season marked by tragedy the Catastrophic Theatre looks ahead to happier days

Tamarie Cooper began her season with the Catastrophic Theatre immersed in dirt. She’ll end it traipsing around a surrealist set dreamily singing, dancing and greeting such disparate figures as Tinker Bell and Kenny Rogers. Since its unassuming launch 30 years ago, the Catastrophic Theatre has reveled in making art between such provocative and broad parameters.

Review: TAMARIE’S TOTALLY TRUE REVUE (PLUS LIES TOO!) at The Catastrophic Theatre

Tamarie Cooper is a local theater legend, icon, chanteuse, and diva. And no Houston summer is complete without her annual revue! Every year this is the Catastrophic Theatre production I anxiously wait for, and each time my smile gets bigger and bigger. What Tamarie does (with help from writing partner Patrick Reynolds) is combine her

Preview: Tamarie’s Totally True Revue (plus lies too!) with Catastrophic Theatre

If you’re one of the people wondering what attending Tamarie’s Totally True Revue (plus lies too!) would be like, Tamarie Cooper’s instructions to new cast members should give you a pretty good idea. “You basically just tell them to check their inhibitions at the door. That the whole process is like a summer camp for

A MAROON’S GUIDE TO TIME AND SPACE Gets Funky with Abolition at Catastrophic Theatre

Achieving freedom through art through June 17th. If you had told me a couple of months ago that a theater company in Houston would present an Afrofuturism piece portraying legendary Harriet Tubman as an intergalactic space-time traveler, talkshow host, and deejay out to free the entire universe, I would never have believed you. And yet,

A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space is an Expertly Crafted Journey Through Past and Future

Stepping into Matchbox 1, eyes go immediately to the four concentric white circle on stage. Stare long enough and it feels like the beginning of a hypnosis trick. The outlines of the circles start to mimic spirals and the structure begins to feel like an optical illusion. Breaking you out of the trance-like state is

Travel time with Harriet Tubman at Houston’s most adventurous theater

In A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space, the latest avant-garde offering from Houston’s ever-adventurous Catastrophic Theatre, Harriet Tubman is whisked not just from the bondage of slavery but into other galaxies and chronologies. She watches a highlight reel of her life that details her courage and hardships before ending on a wry high note:

Review: The Very Trippy EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY At Catastrophic Theatre

EDDIE GOES TO POETRY CITY is a bit of a revival for the Catastrophic Theatre Company. Houston audiences first witnessed it as an Infernal Bridegroom Production way back in 1996, and decades ago it starred a young Jim Parsons (BIG BANG fame!) and a femme fatale version of Tamarie Cooper (musical comedy queen of Houston!).

Avant-garde theater laughs at rational thought, scoffs at plot summary and thumbs its nose at conventional audience expectations. When you go see Catastrophic Theatre’s production of “Eddie Goes to Poetry City,” a mainstay of celebrated New York experimentalist Richard Foreman, you’re enlisting in a fever dream as much as a play. It obliterates connections between

Review: Broadway World – “Tamarie Cooper’S LIVE IN PERSON STICKY SWEET SUMMER SHOW is indeed sticky, sweet, and insane as ever.”

Review: TAMARIE COOPER’S LIVE IN PERSON STICKY SWEET SUMMER SHOW at Catastrophic Theatre Flock to this one people! It’s been too long! Almost every year, like clockwork… CATASTROPHIC THEATRE seemed to trot out Tamarie Cooper during the dog days of summer to showcase her one-woman show with a cast of thousands. Annually it would top

Join us for INNOMINATE’s opening night reception – Friday, May 27th

Join us on opening night for the world premiere of INNOMINATE by Afsaneh Aayani. Immediately following the performance, audience members are invited for refreshments and light snacks with the artists. Details to come!

THE RETURN OF FUN: WE ARE HAVING A PARTY. A BASH. A BLOW OUT. A FUNdraiser!

4worldlovers: As a 1% for the Planet Partner, Boomtown has committed to donating 1% of all roasted coffee sales to charities in the 1% network. Interested to see who’s in that network? Check them out here: https://directories.onepercentfortheplanet.org/