Email Author Steven Leigh Morris

Awards

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "The Race-Time Continuum"

• 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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2000 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• American Inventions

  published December 21, 2000

  Sometimes I wish every Tommy’s burger joint had a small yard behind the parking lot with a couple of doomed cattle bellowing in the moonligh... More >>

• The Edge of the World As We Know It

  published December 7, 2000

  November 9 through 19 marked the second annual Edge of the World Theater Festival (a.k.a. Edgefest), a nonjuried showcase of stage offerings... More >>

• Affairs of the Heartless

  published November 23, 2000

  Putting aside the eternal appeal of sex and bad language for a moment, the legacy -- and clairvoyance -- of D.H. Lawrence’s once banned 192... More >>

• Echo Chambers

  published November 9, 2000

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• Much Ado About Everything, or Here We Godot Again

  published November 2, 2000

  Photo by Tom Lawlor Alan Stanford has been playing Pozzo for the Gate Theatre Dublin’s much-heralded production of Waiting for Godo... More >>

• The Circle of Hype

  published October 26, 2000

  The Lion King opens this week at the newly refurbished Pantages Theater, and many in our local... More >>

• The Night Salvador Dali Stole the Moon

  published October 19, 2000

  Dear Doctor, Last night I dreamed I saw a play called Pathe X by Ricardo Zeger, presented by Zoo District at the Lillian Theater in... More >>

• Happy’s Times Are Here Again

  published October 12, 2000

  Photo by Joan Marcus “Isn’t that remarkable,” reflects washed-up traveling salesman Willy Loman (Brian Dennehy) after his estranged, prodi... More >>

• King Jack?

  published September 21, 2000

  Shortly after John Fitzgerald Kennedy‘s assassination, his widow, Jacqueline, remarked that her late husband’s life “had more to do with my... More >>

• Complex Oedipus

  published September 7, 2000

  The Darker Face of the Earth -- former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove’s first full-length play, a 1994 adaptation of Sophocles‘ Oedipus the Ki... More >>

• Cause Without a Rebel

  published August 24, 2000

  Adapter-director Shishir Kurup subtitles his Orwellian adaptation of Sophocles‘ Antigone ”a Greek tragedy hijack.“ That’s puttin... More >>

• Oh Unlucky Luckman

  published August 17, 2000

  A Noise Within, Southern California’s premier classical-rep company, is returning to Glendale after what co--artistic director Julia Rodrigue... More >>

• In the Land of the Living Dead

  published August 3, 2000

  Photo by Craig Schwartz Were James Joyce’s The Dead — now at the Ahmanson with most of the original cast (albeit somewhat rearrange... More >>

• Grave New Worlds

  published July 13, 2000

  City Garage is situated in an alley adjoining Santa Monica‘s Third Street Promenade -- that mecca of consumerism around which the other legi... More >>

• James O’Rear, 1914-2000

  published July 6, 2000

  A memorial service for actor James O’Rear will be held on Saturday, July 1, at 1 p.m. at Theater West, where he was a longtime member. O’Rear w... More >>

• Maybe They’re Doing It Wrong

  published June 29, 2000

  It just don‘t move me the way that it should. --from Randy Newman’s song “Maybe I‘m Doing It Wrong” Randy N... More >>

• The Good Doctor Sang

  published June 15, 2000

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• Faith Healer

  published June 1, 2000

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• Do As You’re Told

  published May 25, 2000

  Photo by Tanesa Whiting In one scene, the narrator (Julian Bleach) of Shockheaded Peter — the much-heralded, ghoulish cabaret/puppe... More >>

• Robespierre’s Follies

  published May 18, 2000

  Photo by Joan Marcus The first of many questions provoked by the Center Theater Group’s lavishly decorated, beautifully performed an... More >>

• Splish Splash

  published April 27, 2000

  It‘s hard to argue with a theater perforM-ance as visually ravishing as adapter Mary Zimmerman’s staging of tales by the Roman poet Ovid, n... More >>

• The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

  published April 20, 2000

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• Seeing Red

  published April 6, 2000

  The surest way to make heroes out of artists is to ban and kill them. The surest way to crush their spirits is to ignore them. Joseph Stalin... More >>

• Persecution Complex

  published March 9, 2000

  Near the start of Martin Guerre, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg‘s much retooled musical (with lyrics by Boublil and Stephen Clark)... More >>

• Fathers, Sons and Holy Ghosts

  published February 24, 2000

  Photo by Craig Schwartz AUGUST WILSON'S JITNEY AND DAVID HENRY Hwang's Golden Child occupy the north and south poles of a shared... More >>