Steven Leigh Morris

“We haven’t been treated fairly, and everybody knows it, says actress Maria Gobetti. She's objecting to the union's elimination of L.A.'s 99-Seat Theater Plan, which, for the uninitiated, was in effect for a quarter century and permitted union actors to work in theaters of up to 99-seats in L.A. County......

"A solo show's a little show where people talk about their life, "Like battling the bottle. Or slicing themselves with a knife, "They tell their tale with wigs or props, with easels to communicate, "Like being gay or being bi or being trans or being straight! "Sometimes they act out......

One of the Hollywood Fringe Festival's many venues is an old van laden with graffiti and suitcases, with shrinelike decorations in the back. The vehicle, like the show that occurs within and around it, is called Hamlet-Mobile, a notion written and directed by Lauren Ludwig and presented by a company......

So you’re a theater having a hard time getting audiences. A new plan underway by the ever-tempestuous L.A.-based theater website Bitter Lemons allows you to pay the website directly for a published review, with the reviewer receiving the lion’s share of that payment — no guarantee of a good review,......

At 60 years old, the spry, lean, silver-haired Sal Lopez could well be Puck's dad. And it could be argued that Lopez's picaresque autobiographical one-man show, This Is a Man's World at Los Angeles Theatre Center, is a memory play. That's because it opens with Lopez screaming on a hospital......

Near the conclusion of Lucy Prebble's Enron, a docudrama animated with puppets and choreography about the fabled demise of the $111 billion Houston energy trading company (trumpeted by Forbes for six consecutive years as a model of corporate ingenuity), the firm's now-convicted president, Jeffrey Skilling (Skip Pipo), defiantly rationalizes his......

For a snapshot of our bifurcated city through the lens of our 99-seat theater, see John Bunzel's money management farce 63 Trillion, presented by the New American Theatre at the Westside's Odyssey Theatre, and then head east to Boyle Heights to watch Emmanuel Deleage and Lorenzo Alfredo's earnest bio-drama An......

Ground Control to Major Tom: David Bowie, Richard Nixon, the Cold War, the women's liberation movement, early Steven Spielberg movies and a staff-impaired NASA space program from 1973 all combine into a Mel Brooks aesthetic in Bill Robens' world-premiere farce Entropy, which just opened at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE. Regular......

Back in 1987, L.A. stage actors sued and defeated their own union, Actors Equity Association, after the union tried to shut down L.A.'s 99-Seat Theater Plan. To this West Coast “old guard,” AEA’s latest response came as no surprise. For decades, the Plan has allowed L.A. actors to perform for......

In Michael Kearns' Bang Bang, there's a psycho-sexual serial killer named Dr. JackL and MisterHide&Seek (David Pevsner in a bravely unrepentant performance) whose fetish is to stand nude with his head masked in leather, to make Internet contact with his hitherto unknown male victims before meeting them (ostensibly for a......