Nominated for "Best Adaptation" by the LA Weekly, and a "Critic's Choice" in the Los Angeles Times, this sparkling new translation/adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was described by the LA Times as a "gracefully loopy souffle" and an "unguarded hoot." Wealthy and foolish Monsieur Jourdain is in love with the Countess Dorimene and aches to be what he is not-a member of the aristocracy. Determined to overcome his low birth with an education in high style, he unwittingly surrounds himself with charlatans and swindlers who gleefully take his money and prey on his...

Nominated for "Best Adaptation," 2009 LA Weekly Theater Awards. Based on first person narratives of atrocities and genocide are drawn from reports published by Human Rights Watch, Congo Watch, the United Nations, and Amnesty International, this powerful new work by City Garage playwright Charles Duncombe resets Euripides famous tragedy in the war-torn Darfur of today. At its heart, the familiar characters of the ancient story-Queen Hecuba, her women, Cassandra, Andromache-watch the destruction of their city, are driven from their homeland, and taken away as slaves. In the foreground are...