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Some of the Troupe's more recent popular shows include " The Minstrel Show or Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel ," which satirized entrenched attitudes among liberals and bigots during the Civil Rights Struggle, Seeing Double, about a two-state solution in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, Ripped VanWinkle which explores the gap between the optimism of 1968 and the 1988 reality. Offshore, about the real cost of Globalization, Eating It, about genetic engineering and profit driven science, 1600 Transylvania Avenue, about corporate government feeding on public wealth, GodFellas, a farce exposing the dangers of Fundamentalism to Democracy, and Making a Killing, about war propaganda, and the plight of Iraqis contaminated by depleted uranium.

Red State, the Troupe's 2008 fable about a small Midwest town that, after years of being ignored, demands accountability for their tax dollars, was nominated for a San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critic's Award for Best New Script, as was their 2009 production, Too Big To Fail, which detailed how credit and the philosophy of profit at all costs trap mesmerized citizens in a cycle of debt, while endlessly enriching the Capitalists who cast the spell.

Most recently the Troupe produced Posibilidad, or Death of the Worker, which juxtaposes the stories of workers taking over two factories-one in Argentina and one in the U. S .-and poses the question: why are American Workers fighting for a seat at the table?

Why not fight for ... the whole table?