71 stories by "Amy Tofte"
Bootleg Theater produces or co-produces a lot of theater, but it has expanded over the last three years into a locus for indie bands, puppets, spoken word, dance, even "lady arm wrestlers" a…
Theatre Movement Bazaar returns to Three Sisters in its series of Chekhov-inspired performance pieces. This new adaptation, Track 3, emphasizes the music. It opens at the Bootleg tonight and…
"Hey kids, let's put on a show." But it's never that simple. Membership companies have to balance the members' wishes, the company's goals, the artistic directors' authority, public producti…
Some of the prominent independent publicists who promote LA's small and midsize theaters -- Judith Borne, Jerry Charlson, David Elzer, Libby Huebner, Sandra Kuker, Lucy Pollak, Phil Sokolof…
Ever been to an office party that seems to last, say, 17 years? Bob's Holiday Office Party is entering its 17th season, this year at Pico Playhouse. But audience members don't have to make c…
Los Angeles may not get a white Christmas, but the landscape is blanketed in A Christmas Carol " from the traditional to the twisted. READ MORE
Writers Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort explain the serious business of creating the funny for Center Theatre Group"The Second City's production of A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!, opening…
Break the name down as you speak it -- IAMA Theatre Company translates to "I am a theater company." And, as the title of its current production Do Like The Kids Do might indicate, it's a com…
Artists frequently support their art with day jobs -- and some of those day jobs can be found on the managerial side of nonprofit theaters. Here are stories of two such Angelenos, Diana Wyen…
Meet David Tarlow and Ryan Maes, who converted management skills learned in part at nonprofit theaters into better-paying day jobs -- without forgetting their theatrical roots. Then meet Ste…
Jim Leonard fictionalizes the Abu Ghraib scandal to examine why soldiers in faraway combat zones might become abusers and torturers. A musical score by Rob Cairns and Beth Thornley facilitat…
Family audiences are now the top priority at 24th Street Theatre, which doubles as a community center. The latest example of this programming is the US premiere of the Mexican import Rome at…
Brothers Jon and Al Kaplan moved to LA to become film composers. But they've achieved their greatest fame with Silence! The Musical, a YouTube-generated stage parody of the movie Silence of …
Chalk Rep's Flash Festival will present 15 new 10-minue plays -- five in each of three weekends -- in site-specific locations within the George Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits. Audiences…
As another Carmageddon looms, with closure of the 405 freeway scheduled for Sept. 29-30, the ARTmageddon movement is encouraging residents not only to stay close to home but also to support …
We're in an election year, but director David Chrzanowski hopes his staging of the Adrian Hall adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's novel All the King's Men will resonate beyond the story of t…
John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday -- previously the source of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream -- receives a non-musical adaptation by Robb Derringer and Matt McKenzie at Pacific…
Poor Dog Group was introduced at a REDCAT NOW festival and now returns to the annual event with its developing 30-minute solo production The Murder Ballad. The show's director Jesse Bonnell …
Peter Lefcourt wrote and Terry Hanauer is directing a new play with the ominous title Mutually Assured Destruction. And they're married -- to each other. Does that title reflect their wo…
Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, a Ugandan American actor with a Hollywood career, hasn't forgotten Uganda's problems. His A Missionary Position is a dramatization based on research in Uganda about t…
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come to the Fringe Cabaret, from 6 to 9 each evening during the Hollywood Fringe Festival. It showcases the talent on display in the other Fringe sho…
Melora Marshall and Willow Geer are in the family business"Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and its longstanding tradition of outdoor summer repertory theater. Each appear in three plays this …
Stuart Rogers and his Theatre Tribe are keeping alert with The Sleeper, Catherine Butterfield's post"9/11 play, opening Friday night. READ MORE
Playwright Michael Elyanow has reworked Medea for modern times -- and Maine. Find out whether he thinks we treat our kids any better these days when the play opens this weekend. READ MORE
Lifelike "reborn" dolls are used as therapeutic props by mothers whose babies have died or abused individuals. They're also used in Zayd Dohrn's Reborning, opening at the Chance Theater. Cas…
