Email Author Steven Leigh Morris

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Theater Reviews

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Guerillas in our Midst"

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2012 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Clybourne Park's Broadway Plans Derailed (See Update), Plus This Weekend's Stage Listings

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Jaws have been dropping since the New York Post broke the story yesterday r that producer Scott Rudin was walking away from plans to produce Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park, More >>

• Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG

  published February 2, 2012

  Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in... More >>

• Hollywood Fringe Fest Applications Open Today; Dreams of the Washer King, and More New Reviews

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Registration is now open for the Third Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival, a noncurated open-invitation performance festival situated in Hollywood, and slated for mid-June. For more info, go to Hollywoo More >>

• City Garage Call for Actors

  published Jan 26, 2012

  City Garage, the Santa Monica-based experimental theater troupe now situated in Bergamot Station, is seeking ambitious and dynamic actors for an upcoming project -- a new play Charles Mee has written More >>

• Tanya Saracho's El Nogalar: Chekhov Set in the Mexican Drug Wars

  published Jan 26, 2012

  ​ Though Tanya Saracho is 35 and has lived in the United States since she was 12, she still isn't a citizen, holding only a green card. Deeply grateful to the United States for the life she's li More >>

• Helen Hunt in Our Town at the Broad Stage

  published January 26, 2012

  Over at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the schoolkids of Grover's Corners in Thornton Wilder's Our Town pour off the stage, like... More >>

• Fairy Tale Theatre, 18 & Over, Ovo, Hamlet and more New Stage Reviews . . .

  published Jan 25, 2012

  This week's Pick goes to Inkwell Theatre Company at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood, and their production of Fairy Tale Theatre, 18 & Over, which Mayank Keshaviah describes as having "go-for- More >>

• Helen Hunt in Our Town, and Return of the Stage Listings . . .

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Speaking with a disgruntled colleague at Wednesday's opening of David Cromer's much anticipated, intimate staging of Our Town at Santa Monica's Broad Stage, I told him that the production recalled the More >>

• Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

  published January 19, 2012

  Are we insects or are we dancers? "I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under... More >>

• Kathleen Turner Plays Journalist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot at the Geffen

  published January 19, 2012

  It's probably dangerous to subtitle a biographical play "The Kick-Ass Wit," as twin-sister journalist-playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel do... More >>

• O(h), Bananas!, Jackie Five-Oh! and more new reviews

  published Jan 16, 2012

  Our critics were in a upbeat mood this week, serving up a Pick of the Week to Jackie Hoffman's Jackie Five-Oh!" at the Gay and Lesbian Centerr, with recommendations for the Actor's Company's O(h), the More >>

• Did You Do Your Homework, Snow White, Fiesta, and other new reviews . . .

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is this week's Pick of the Week. See all New Theater reviews after the jump. r Also check out this week's features on John Malkovich directing Julian Sands in readings More >>

• John Malkovich Directs Harold Pinter Reading

  published January 12, 2012

  In a silvery-blue jacket and slacks, lithe British actor Julian Sands presented 90 minutes of readings from the poetry of and speeches by... More >>

• Leslie Jordan's Fruit Fly

  published January 12, 2012

  How often, in the pantheon of literature and drama, do you find a guy performing an homage to his mom? Far more common in the annals of pop... More >>

• 6 Oddest Moments of L.A. Theater in 2011

  published Jan 05, 2012

  ​​From backstage mishaps to audience interruptions, theater is unpredictable, and no one knows that better than the actors, producers and others who work in theater every day. We polled t More >>

• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre, Reviewed

  published January 5, 2012

  There's a reason that John Patrick Shanley's two-character, 75-minute "apache dance" from 1984, set in the Bronx, is one of the most-produced... More >>

• Residents Sue OverCrumbling L.A.

  published January 5, 2012

  When the Los Angeles City Council approves new condos, office towers and other forms of growth, should it know whether the city's troubled,... More >>

• Fred Willard in A Cinderella Christmas, and Eclectic Company's Askance

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Kris Lythgoe's A Cinderella Christmas at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre is this week's Pick.rFor all New Theater Reviews, go to the jump. Also, check out this coming week's stage feature on three More >>

• Theater Anecdotes, Anyoner Also, New reviews of Stations, Santasia and Camp Sunday

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Boom Kat Dance Theatre's production of Stations at Santa Monica's Miles Memorial Playhouse landed this week's stage Pick; ralso recommended are the Whitefire Theatre's Santasia in Sherman Oaks, and th More >>

• Atomic Holiday Free Fall, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, A Christmas Westside Story and more holiday season reviews . . .

  published Dec 13, 2011

  Troubadour Theatre Company snags this week's Pick of the Week, .r with their yuletide mashup, A Christmas Westside Story at Burbank's Falcon Theatre. Nods also for Atomic Holiday Freefall at the Acto More >>

• Blood Fruit, Christmastime is Queer, The Many Murders of Kristopher K. Kringle, and more new reviews. . .

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Yep, it's time for all the holiday play reviews.r Check 'em all the capsule New Theater Reviews after the jump; also, this week's stage features on reactions from the Fountain Theatre family to the c More >>

• Hosea Nova, Who's Your Daddyr and More New Theater Reviews

  published Nov 30, 2011

  High praise this week for "Robert Reimer's nutcase of a play," Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man (this week's Pick of the Week) at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, and for writer-perfo More >>

• Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

  published Nov 23, 2011

  Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. r Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo perfor More >>

• Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and Other New Reviews

  published Nov 16, 2011

   Alan Alda's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review  rof Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Undergroun More >>

• Jerker, Have You Seen Alicer, The Romance of Magno Rubio, and more new stage reviews . . .

  published Nov 08, 2011

  Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein rJacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alicer at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics al More >>