Bonjour,
A $15,000 Pledge!
We are very excited to tell you that one of our long-term supporters, someone who means a great deal to us, but who wishes to remain anonymous, has just volunteered a gift of $15,000! This is truly amazing and so much appreciated by all of us at City Garage. But this person wants you to join them! It’s a matching gift, which means we have until the end of the summer to equal or exceed that $15,000. Won’t you join them and show your love for City Garage? For more than 35 years, City Garage has been a vital part of the arts landscape of Santa Monica as well as the larger community of LA. Box office alone doesn’t come close to covering our costs. Even city, county, and state grants, as important as they are, aren’t nearly as important as you—our loyal audience members who have been there for us through all those years. Help us match this generopus pledge with your own gift today! Any amount, small or large, is welcome
Help us get to the $15,000 we need to raise!
Merci,
Frédérique 👠👠
The Bald Soprano – Still Singing!
Meanwhile, the madness continues at the home of Madame and Monsieur Smith. If you haven’t yet joined the party, don’t miss a fast-paced evening of lunacy by the master of absurdity, Eugene Ionesco. Make your reservations now and enjoy the ride!
Buy Tickets to “The Bald Soprano”
TOP TEN! RECOMMENDED!
“City Garage has remounted the 1950 one-act with wackiness and wile, deftly recreating Ionesco’s illogical world for an American audience… an uncanniness that feels friendly and welcoming, suggesting a place where we can all be mad together….Beyond illusions of language and paradoxes of time, there is much amusement to be had.
— Amanda Andrei, Stage Raw
“Michel keeps her entire cast on the same absurdist page while giving them plenty of unscripted business to accompany Ionesco’s words….the entire cast is given moments to shine…Since its 1987 debut, Michel and Duncombe’s City Garage has established itself as the most adventurously avant garde of SoCal intimate theaters….The Bald Soprano adds up to an hour or so of zany absurdist fun.”
— Steven Stanley, StageScene LA
About the play
A revival of City Garage’s acclaimed productions from 2008 and 2012, this mad, crazy, wildly funny play is the comic masterpiece that launched the Theatre of the Absurd. It’s the story of an ordinary evening in the home of M. and Madame Smith that spins madly out of control as they entertain their guests, the Martins. Dazzling in its linguistic acrobatics, the play is a comic masterpiece of joyful, irrational anti-logic and a looney parody of the stolid, thick-witted world of middleclass propriety. In an escalating battle of banalities, polite conversation turns to confusion, then mayhem, and finally explodes into cheerful, liberating chaos. Simultaneously comic and profound, it is a short, sharp ludicrous journey into a funhouse mirror version of the world we think we know—and the truth of what we do not.
Frederique and Charles Honored by the State of California
Part of our opening night festivities included a visit to the theatre by Sherwin Shamoeil from Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur’s office. Assemblymember Zbur has been a strong advocate for the arts in California and for smaller organizations like ours. Mr. Shamoiel presented Frederique and Charles a Certificate of Recognition from the California Legislature which read, in part:
“The Caifornia State Legislature commends your over 40 years of dedication to promoting the arts and fostering community in there City of Santa Monica. Through consistent acts of kindness and generosity, you have made the State of California a better place in which to work, live, and thrive.”
Stage Raw Award: Distinguished Production of an International Play
Awarded to City Garage for “Insulted. Belarus” by Andrei Kureichik.
The Writers Workshop at City Garage
New Online Sessions Begin July 6th!
Sign up by the 4th of July and get 50% off your first month!
Are you working on a play, a one-person show, a screenplay, or a piece of fiction and want help pushing it forward? Develop it in the Writers Workshop at City Garage. Get guidance, feedback, story analysis, and support in our weekly sessions. The number of places is limited. Click here for more information.
Merci! ❤️
Frederique 👠👠, Charles, and everyone at City Garage
Archie says Thank you!