City Garage Theatre

Bonjour,

In a world where censorship and control can feel pervasive, supporting the arts is an act of resistance. We’ve just closed our production of “Antigone,” which explored themes around the power of the state versus the conscience of the individual. Merci to you all for turning out and making “Antigone” a success. It was an exciting run for the fantastic cast and creators behind the show.

Now, we need your help to continue our good work at a time when alternative voices are more important than ever.

We’ve just received three new matching grants: two from the City of Santa Monica, and one from the County of Los Angeles for a total of $23,350. In a time when funding for the arts is reduced or eliminated, we feel very grateful for this support, but we need your help. Can you please help us match these grants with your contribution today?

We must match these grants with donations from our own contributors to receive the full value of these awards. Please make your gift now online. If you prefer, you can also send a check to:

City Garage
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave. T1
Santa Monica, CA 90404?

We cannot wait to see you for our next production, “Border Crisis”—a very funny black comedy by Charles Duncombe, based on a Polish absurdist play by Slawomir Mrozek, which will open November 7. We’ll tell you all about it next week.

Merci in advance,
Frederique, Charles, Archie, and everyone at City Garage.

“compelling, thought-provoking….as timely and as it is relevant”

“TOP TEN! RECOMMENDED!”

“Dynamically staged…thought-provoking and topical”

“WOW!”

“...an uncanniness that feels friendly and welcoming, suggesting a place where we can all be mad together...”

“... sometimes scorching, sometimes hilarious, always intriguing exploration of human relations…what really grabs our attention and hearts are the performances.”

“Contemporary theater at its most informative and impactful … stunning, gut-punching”

“it hits like thunderclap…”

“Stellar performances from the cast under Frédérique Michel’s direction”

“Approaches the “hallelujah” level!”

“...startlingly compelling as well as rather surprisingly funny...”

“eerie, atmospheric ... well suited to the stylish City Garage aesthetic”

“... a Greek myth scaled down to human proportions ... It’s simple, it’s quiet, it’s deeply personal”

“THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN had the audience laughing from start to finish.”

“Superb acting….Frederique Michel’s clockwork-like direction of Schimmelpfennig’s tricky, provocative play and Charles Duncombe’s atmospheric stage design also deserve the highest praise possible.”

“City Garage, known for daring, highly stylized sociopolitical theater, is the ideal local company to revive this infrequently done, disturbingly timely play.”

“Crowd-pleasing and consistently funny!”

“The piece is fascinating to watch... handsome and visually stunning production, stylized and ritualized.”

“The writing and the performances crackle...”

“A marvelous evening of theater... a distinctive, individual form of dance-theater, using a movement vocabulary that... communicates immediately with gestures sometimes like seductive cabaret performance... ”