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Thursday, June 19, 2014

HFF Profile: Lost in Lvov 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…

SOURCE: Bitter Lemons at 08:34PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

LA STAGE Talks: The Connection Between Religion and Art by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:37PM
Thursday, December 12, 2013

News Flash — Nudity Helps Antaeus and Rogue Machine Raise Funds by Amy Tofte

Let them entertain you...as they ask you for donations. Antaeus and Rogue Machine are employing nudity in their year-end fund-raising campaigns.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:30PM
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Weier Takes Note of The Invisible Play — and the Visible Properties by Amy Tofte

Actress Amanda Weier also directs "The Invisible Play" at Theatre of NOTE and helps Open Fist search for a new theater space.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:10PM
Friday, November 15, 2013

¡Ser! Kicks Anzoategui from LA to BA (Buenos Aires) and Back by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:20PM
Friday, October 25, 2013

Alfaro and Aesop in Rancho Cucamonga by Amy Tofte

MainStreet Theatre commissioned Luis Alfaro to write "Aesop in Rancho Cucamonga" for its youth audience. Director Robert Castro joined the process.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:09PM
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Boughton Directs the Course of Civilization at Son of Semele by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:56PM
Friday, September 27, 2013

As Kuo Stages Cowboy Versus Samurai, Directing is No Longer a Sideline by Amy Tofte

Comparing career paths of artists rarely paints the same road map twice. But something successful artists often have ...Continue Reading

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:34PM
Friday, September 20, 2013

The Intrigue of Animating the Inanimate — Three Puppeteers in Radar L.A. by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:39PM
Thursday, September 19, 2013

Jacobson Blends His Day and Night Jobs in Chalk Rep’s Gallery Secrets by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:23PM
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Hamlet Closes an Era for LA Women’s Shakespeare Company by Amy Tofte

"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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:36PM
Friday, August 23, 2013

The Clicking of the Crowd Can Help Pay for the Play by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:27PM
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

The Women Playwrights of the Ojai Conference by Amy Tofte

Snapshot interviews of Alice Tuan, Jiehae Park, Lucy Alibar and Laura Schellhardt, whose plays are being developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference next week.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Smith and Ryan’s Grittier, Edgier Judas Iscariot Opens in Hollywood by Amy Tofte

A grittier, edgier “Judas Iscariot" remount comes to Hollywood, courtesy of producer Dee Smith and Zombie Joe’s Josh T. Ryan.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:15PM
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Downtown’s Dido Plays the Pico (but it isn’t on Pico) by Amy Tofte

Downtown Repertory Theater uses the historic Pico House for its productions, such as the current and rarely-see Dido Queen of Carthage by Marlowe.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PM
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Haing Ngor’s Story Inspired Ong’s Sweet Karma by Amy Tofte

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.

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 04:48PM
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Navigating Inner Space: NASA’s Starcrossed Love Triangle at Son of Semele by Amy Tofte

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 …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:38PM
Friday, May 3, 2013

NOTE and TMB Create a New Ensemble for Hot Cat (as in Tin Roof) by Amy Tofte

Theatre of NOTE and Theatre Movement Ensemble transform Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof into Hot Cat..

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:12PM
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Storefront Church Meets Transitional Home in Anatomy of Gazellas by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PM
Friday, April 26, 2013

Elephants Aren’t Necessarily Republicans. Take The North Plan… by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:00PM
Friday, March 29, 2013

A Tollbooth Between Pasadena and Rancho Cucamonga by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:20PM
Monday, March 25, 2013

Ghost Road’s Butterfly Emerges From Its Cocoon by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:21PM
Friday, March 15, 2013

One Night With Janis Joplin and Her Musical Mentors by Amy Tofte

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 …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:39PM
Friday, March 8, 2013

Returning to the Trainspotting Habit a Decade Later by Amy Tofte

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 …

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:07PM
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Early O’Neill Receives a Wooster Rendition at REDCAT by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 01:21PM
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Bootleg Strikes Up the Bands, the Boards, the Bar 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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:30PM
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Theatre Movement Bazaar Takes Track 3 to Two Stops by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:29PM
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

So You Want to Start a Membership-Based Company? by Amy Tofte

"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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:33PM
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Publicity 101 for LA’s Small and Midsize Theaters by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:25PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Bob’s Office Party Enters Year 17, Film to Follow? by Amy Tofte

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…

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:03PM
Friday, November 30, 2012

The Season’s Fine Feast of Christmas Carols — and the Carol-ish by Amy Tofte

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

SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:26PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards