Email Author Steven Leigh Morris
Awards
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2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
"The Race-Time Continuum"
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2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
Theater Reviews
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2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
"Guerillas in our Midst"
2013 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris
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FEATURED STORY
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including the 'Elliptical Comedy' Kin
published Oct 04, 2013
Bathsheba Doran's "elliptical comedy about those who save us and those who don't" drew praises from Jenny Lower, and is is this week's Pick. For all the latest new theater reviews, and theater listin... More >>
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Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
published October 3, 2013
In his absorbing solo show, St. Jude, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, gay-Latino writer-performer Luis Alfaro talks sincerely about... More >>
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Radar L.A. Festival 2013: Experimental Theater From the Seductive to the Disgusting
published Sep 30, 2013
A sampling of entries seen at this year's 18-entry Radar L.A.Festival leaves two impressions: Angst about fathers and stages filled with puppets. The downtown, Getty Villa and UCLA entries closed on... More >>
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Dancing on the Edge
published August 22, 2013
Presented on Zombie Joe's Underground's tiny, bare stage, Dancing on the Edge borrows from the company's long-running spectacle of... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including HIV Activism Classic The Normal Heart
published Sep 26, 2013
A ten-year anniversary revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart snagged this week's Pick by Neal Weaver, thanks in large part to the power of Simon Levy's staging. Pauline Adamek enjoyed Lorenzo Pi... More >>
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Richard II, With Only Three Actors
published September 26, 2013
Theater @ Boston Court's program to its production of R II — what might otherwise be called William... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Philip K. Dick Novel Onstage
published Sep 19, 2013
This was a week marked by enthusiasm by our various critics: Bill Raden praised Sacred Fools' production of Edward Einhorn's 2010 adaptation of Philip K. Dick sci-fi book Do Androids Dream of Sleep... More >>
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Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound
published September 19, 2013
In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an All-Female Hamlet
published Sep 12, 2013
No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings. ... More >>
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Pericles and The Miss Julie Dream Project: Sort-of Shakespeare, and Sort-of Strindberg
published September 12, 2013
There are dreams described within August Strindberg's 1888 play, Miss Julie — such as the moneyed title character being stranded... More >>
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Theater to See This Week, Including John Henry Redwood's Trip Back to 1943 Harlem
published Sep 05, 2013
John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-December r... More >>
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Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival
published September 5, 2013
Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day was first presented as a workshop in 1985 at New York's Theatre 22, before receiving its... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a New Production of Sarah Ruhl's The Vibrator Play
published Aug 29, 2013
A solid revival of Sarah Ruhl's Victorian-era satire of gender attitudes In the Next Room, Or the Vibrator Play is this week's Pick, as reviewed by Deborah Klugman. Presented by The Production Compa... More >>
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Rapture, Blister, Burn Is an Exuberant Take on the State of Feminism in 2013
published August 29, 2013
"I don't have time for men," a female colleague recently told me — and she's not a lesbian. She's hard-working, ambitious, very smart,... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Tim Robbins Directing A Midsummer Night's Dream
published Aug 22, 2013
Faeries and shadows and mortals being fools grab this week's Pick -- yes, another Midsummer Night's Dream, but the Actors Gang version is unusually fine, says critic Deborah Klugman. Also good words ... More >>
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El Grande de Coca Cola and the Groundlings' Latest Show Bring Vaudeville to 2013
published August 22, 2013
In 1973, the Mexican cabaret-parody El Grande de Coca Cola made its premiere off-Broadway, and it has been a micro-cult sensation ever... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Tom Sawyer Adaptation
published Aug 15, 2013
Tom Sawyer coming of age, and all that represents about America, is depicted in an entertaining stage adaptation at Sierra Madre Playhouse -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- that's this week's Pick. A... More >>
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Susan Rubin's New Play eve2 Is Like Eden Meets The X-Files
published August 15, 2013
The problem with Romeo and Juliet is that we never get to see how it really went down, the fallout from all that sexy forbidden union... More >>
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Theater to See This Week, Including Sapphic Garbo and Dietrich
published Aug 08, 2013
Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercedes de Acosta, who was also cozy with Marlene Die... More >>
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REDCAT'S New Original Works Festival Shows How Visual Innovation Can Make Theater More Relevant
published August 8, 2013
You'd think it would be a given in a movie town such as ours that, even on our local stages, pictures and moving pictures would be the... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Oscar Wilde Outdoors
published Aug 01, 2013
Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularly enjoyed... More >>
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I Bought a House in Idyllwild. Two Months Later, a Fire Was Heading Right For It
published Aug 01, 2013
We had two cars in which to stow three dogs and a lifetime's worth of possessions. The emergency broadcast service at 1610 AM, or WINKI, kept repeating the mantra on Wednesday, July 17: "There is now ... More >>
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Open House, a Play That Merges the Real Estate Crisis With Salvador Dali
published August 1, 2013
Los Feliz's Skylight Theatre has become the home for L.A. scribe Shem Bitterman, who's had his plays staged in this city for decades. His... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka
published Jul 25, 2013
Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the Falcon T... More >>
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A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity
published July 25, 2013
In Bruce Norris' stark comedy A Parallelogram, 30-ish Bee (Marin Ireland) — a regional manager for Rite Aid, a job that's "very... More >>
