71 stories by "Amy Tofte"
The solo show is its own special beast. And the 2014 Fringe boasts as many as ever in the line up. Among them is Lost in Lvov created and performed by multimedia artist and storyteller Sandy…
The similarities between theater and religion, suspension of disbelief and leaps of faith, were among the topics at an LA STAGE Talks panel discussion on religion and art.
Let them entertain you...as they ask you for donations. Antaeus and Rogue Machine are employing nudity in their year-end fund-raising campaigns.
Actress Amanda Weier also directs "The Invisible Play" at Theatre of NOTE and helps Open Fist search for a new theater space.
Karen Anzoategui shuttled between LA and Buenos Aires while growing up, seeking to understand her identity as a queer Latina. Futbol helped. Her story, " ¡Ser!," is at LATC.
MainStreet Theatre commissioned Luis Alfaro to write "Aesop in Rancho Cucamonga" for its youth audience. Director Robert Castro joined the process.
LA small-theater veteran actor and producer Don Boughton directs Jason Grote's "Civilization," which the playwright has made more LA-specific for Son of Semele.
Comparing career paths of artists rarely paints the same road map twice. But something successful artists often have ...Continue Reading
Radar L.A. explores contemporary puppetry with Janie Geiser/Erik Ehn's "Clouded Sulphur,", Basil Twist/Yumiko Tanaka's "Dogugaeshi" and Gisele Vienne/Dennis Cooper/Johnathan Capdevielle's "J…
Tom Jacobson is museum executive by day, playwright by night. He blends both of these in "Gallery Secrets," Chalk Rep's site-specific production at the museum where Jacobson works.
"Hamlet", opening soon at the Odyssey Theatre, is expected to be the final production of Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company, say Lisa Wolpe and Natsuko Ohama.
Online crowd-funders such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo can help pay for nonprofit theatrical productions, says some of the LA companies that have used them.
Snapshot interviews of Alice Tuan, Jiehae Park, Lucy Alibar and Laura Schellhardt, whose plays are being developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference next week.
A grittier, edgier "Judas Iscariot" remount comes to Hollywood, courtesy of producer Dee Smith and Zombie Joe's Josh T. Ryan.
Downtown Repertory Theater uses the historic Pico House for its productions, such as the current and rarely-see Dido Queen of Carthage by Marlowe.
Henry Ong's Sweet Karma, at GTC Burbank. is a fictionalized account of the story of Haing Ngor, the Cambodian doctor turned Academy Award winner turned murder victim.
Police interviews with the female astronaut at the heart of 2007's headline-grabbing NASA love triangle scandal inspired "Starcrosser's Cut," a drama by writer/director Joseph Tepperman and …
Theatre of NOTE and Theatre Movement Ensemble transform Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof into Hot Cat..
In The Anatomy of Gazallas, Janine Salinas Schoenberg writes about a transitional home for young women that's run by a leader who also tries to evangelize for her religious beliefs. It's pro…
Jason Wells' The North Plan examines a dystopian government's intrusions into personal privacy via a small-town police station. It isn't necessarily a Republican government , but the play is…
Director Jessica Kubzansky has re-assembled most of her design team from Boston Court's 2012 production of The Children in Pasadena in order to work on The Phantom Tollbooth, produced by Mai…
Ghost Road Company's The Bargain and the Butterfly, inspired by a a Hawthorne short story, has been in development for nearly two years. Director Katharine Noon, sound designer Cricket Myers…
Given the blessings of the Janis Joplin estate to create a musical tribute show, Randy Johnson devised a plan to honor her alongside the women singers who influenced her -- and to avoid the …
The director and four of the actors who shook up the LA small theater scene in 2002 with a rough and raw production of Trainspotting, the play about Scottish heroin addicts in the '80s, are …
Wooster Group audiences are accustomed to radically deconstructed texts of older plays. But Richard Maxwell of New York City Players, who directed three of Eugene O'Neill's Early Plays for W…
