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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1998 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Teenage Crush

  published December 24, 1998

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• Season’s Cretins

  published December 17, 1998

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• Duck Logic

  published December 10, 1998

  Photo by Ed KriegerPlaywright Robert Harders calls his 10th-century Arabian fantasy (premiering at the McCadden Place Theater) The Demented... More >>

• City of Stages

  published November 26, 1998

  Was it a bad dream, or did I really stand, recently, in an almost empty lobby at the Los Angeles Theater Center — on a Saturday night, no less... More >>

• Shticks and Stones

  published November 12, 1998

  There's not much a playwright can do with a Nazi anymore. Have a Brown Shirt goose-step across the stage and we get the point, almost too quickly.... More >>

• Of Lice and Men

  published October 22, 1998

  In the midst of life, we are in death.-The Book of Common Prayer"Science has discovered . . . a serum that will stop the... More >>

• Daughter of the American Revolution

  published October 15, 1998

  Performance artist Karen Finley has become a kind of battered and bruised Statue of Liberty for the baby boomers, a naked, chocolate-coated figure... More >>

• Haggis, Guinness and a Couple of Plays

  published September 24, 1998

  The Edinburgh International Festival, now 50 years old, is the granddaddy of such events, host to the world's most established music, dance and... More >>

• Moscow stares into the abyss

  published September 17, 1998

  I didn't travel to Moscow to write about the crisis, but rather to be with my wife, Lena, a Russian who is temporarily living and working in... More >>

• Marriage of Inconvenience

  published August 27, 1998

  Pondering modern sex roles on a recent radio call-in show, the host was forcefully making the rather medieval point that men's power still resides... More >>

• Sympathy for the Devil

  published August 20, 1998

  At a recent performance of his autobiographical comedy routine Other Than My Health I Have Nothing . . . And Today I Don't Feel So Good, Bruce... More >>

• Mommie Dearest

  published July 23, 1998

  In this century's first half, being a surrealist playwright - as was Jean Cocteau - was the aesthetic equivalent of being an anarchist. Which... More >>

• Living in Solitary

  published June 25, 1998

  Something wondrous occurred last month - a shot of support for those of us who still believe that theater can (and should) claim a vaster turf... More >>

• Circumstantial Evidence

  published June 11, 1998

  When he was only 11, Paul Rosario took $240 he'd earned from his newspaper-delivery route and invested it in Comsat. "Not G.M., not even G.M.... More >>

• Razzle Shmazzle

  published May 28, 1998

  CHICAGO Book by FRED EBB & BOB FOSSE Music by JOHN KANDER Lyrics by FRED EBB At... More >>

• Monsters Galore

  published April 23, 1998

  If the 19th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are any indication, 1997 was the year the newpaper’s theater critics couldn’t make up the... More >>

• Black Magic, White Funk

  published April 2, 1998

  Every play is, on some level, a map of the world, a grid of common reference points. The Broadway hit Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk More >>

• Wilde and Wilder

  published March 19, 1998

  OUR TOWN By THORNTON WILDER At SOUTH COAST REPERTORY 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Through March 28 GROSS ... More >>

• Flesh Palaces

  published March 5, 1998

  Yes, it's true that Dan Gerrity and Jeremy Lawrence's Melody Jones (in a return engagement at Theatre/Theater) is set entirely in a... More >>

• The Art of Artifice

  published February 19, 1998

  Who says Anton Chekhov was a kind, compassionate man? I think he was a sadist and, even in death, remains one -... More >>