71 stories by "Amy Tofte"
Michael Premsrirat's The Girl Most Likely To is loosely based on the story of murdered transgendered teenager Gwen Araujo. It's being introduced in an LATC production directed by Jon Lawrenc…
You might think that you would never be seduced into seeing a play about propaganda by reading an online article about Cody Henderson's The Bewildered Herd at Greenway Court, but we dare you…
The internet is the central character in Matthew McCray's Eternal Thou, a sci-play that incorporates a little Martin Buber as well as the idea that technology is taking over the world. Mc…
Reid Scott, best known as a TV actor, directed plays in his New York salad days. Now he's making his LA stage directing debut with a production of The Elephant Man, produced by a group of fr…
Damon Chua's own odyssey led him from Singap0re to LA to New York. When the playwright became eligible for US citizenship in 2009, he decided to write about a particular year in the Amer…
Circle X rolls out the first result of its new in-house play development model with Leo Geter's Naked Before God, a comedy that touches on porn, penance and politics. Artistic director Tim W…
The Production Company revives the Studs Terkel-derived musical Working with a look at the solitary experience of the modern workplace -- and a live band that wasn't possible in the group's …
Theatre Movement Bazaar has previously treated Chekhov's plays as components within its highly choreographed productions,. But now it's tackling a Chekhov short story, Ward 6, in partnership…
Jon Marans has both a new play and an old play up in LA right now -- The Cost of the Erection at the Blank and Old Wicked Songs at the Colony. He makes 100% of his living from his plays. Adv…
Lars Jan presents Abacus, a TED Talks-style presentation, examined from many different angles. He cautions that the shifting nature of the show makes it "a Trojan horse" -- but don't call it…
The Furious Theatre re-emerges at [Inside] the Ford, after losing its Pasadena Playhouse home a year ago. The vehicle is Matt Pelfrey's ambitious No Good Deed, which mixes the graphic novel …
A six-weekend run for a dance production in a small LA theater? That's what casebolt and smith, AKA Liz Casebolt and Joel Smith, are attempting with O(h) at Actors Company Theatre. They're d…
Adam Silver began producing theater at the age of six, and he continues at the age of 25 with the LA premiere of Adam Szymkowicz' Nerve, staged by fellow ex-Chicagoan Michael Matthews at El …
We asked a few of LA's small theater companies what they're hoping to get from Santa this year, and we got a range of responses, from liquor to Lekos. READ MORE
Native Angeleno Stefan Haves infused his productions in LA's 99-seat arena with circus skills in the late '80s and '90s, then started working behind the scenes on circuses in San Francisco a…
We survey the range of Christmas shows, or other seasonal-friendly theatrical fare -- both naughty and nice -- in greater LA. READ MORE
A play called Ching Chong Chinaman can be expected to disturb some audience members, and that's fine with the four creators of the new production company Artists at Play, which is presenting…
Julian Acosta first read Short Eyes as an undergraduate, directing a scene from it in class, but he had to recruit staff members to act in it because his fellow students refused to tackle th…
Theatre Banshee, the Irish-oriented troupe currently producing Dolly West's Kitchen, is up for the Ovation Award for best season at the Nov. 14 ceremony. Co-artistic director Leslie Baldwin …
Albie Selznick took up magic as a boy, finding solace in it after his father's death. Then he gradually left it behind in his professional pursuits, becoming a co-founder of The Mums and a w…
Bill Cain's 9 Circles examines a Iraq War veteran who goes through the nine circles of hell within the military bureaucracy when he's accused of crimes after his return to the US. The Bootle…
