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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2001 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Waiting for the Cable Guy

  published December 20, 2001

  Illustration by Guy Burwell Starting in January, the Los Angeles Times’ ace drama critic Michael Phillips takes over as head theater criti... More >>

• Rising After the Fall

  published December 13, 2001

  Moscow’s downtown Okhotny Ryad shopping mall is a bustling three-story glittering complex of faux-Greco design, dotted with cafes an... More >>

• Big Science, Little People

  published December 13, 2001

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• London Calling

  published November 29, 2001

  Photo by Hugo Glendinning Although the West End’s heart, Piccadilly Circus, was certainly pulsing last Friday night, it was hardly host to th... More >>

• Back to the Future

  published November 15, 2001

  Among the greatest challenges Los Angeles continues to face when it comes to building a culture is that of developing a public sense... More >>

• Signifying Nothing

  published October 11, 2001

  How the everlasting cocksucking fuck did David Mamet get to be so lauded a figure in American theater? True, he’s been the subject of a grea... More >>

• Sharp Turns

  published September 27, 2001

  What a difference a day makes. On September 10, we were still living in the 20th century. That illusion ended with the cataclysmic events of... More >>

• High Anxiety

  published September 20, 2001

  In the hallway outside Hollywood High School’s main office, assistant principal Mitzi Kono was slightly prickly in her insistence that th... More >>

• Western Lit’s Greatest Hits

  published September 20, 2001

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• Live Inaction Heroes

  published September 6, 2001

  Photo by Rick Pickman “The sound of words makes another dimension,” says Mrs. Feuerstein (Maria O’Brien), obviously speaking... More >>

• Fleas in Their Ears

  published August 23, 2001

  Photo by Gulu Montiero Georges Feydeau’s spirit hangs over Los Angeles — for the time being, at least. That two stagings of his celebrated y... More >>

• Executive Action: Tim Robbins takes control at the Actor's Gang

  published August 9, 2001

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• A Cradle of Nostalgia

  published July 26, 2001

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• Chicken-Hearted

  published July 5, 2001

  There is no garden, only patches of community-owned ivy adjoining the Hollywood condo where I live. But in last summer’s heat, against hous... More >>

• Birth Trap

  published June 14, 2001

  Among the ”good things“ in Jessica Goldberg‘s new play is an infant just born to a drug-addicted teenage mother named Mary (Karina Logu... More >>

• Death of a Nation

  published June 7, 2001

  ”Loss of innocence“ is one of those romantic phrases writers and historians love to bandy about as though, in a national context at least, ... More >>

• Flashes in the Pan

  published May 31, 2001

  In the late ’80s, on Beverly Boulevard a few blocks east of CBS Television City, stood a relic, the Pan Pacific Auditorium -- a looming... More >>

• Fire and Fire Marshals

  published May 3, 2001

  With wry hosts Megan Mullally, John Fleck and David Schweizer, and considerable organizational efforts by Robert Berg, Robert A. Prior and the... More >>

• Hackin’ and Coffin

  published April 5, 2001

  Perhaps Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize–winning Caltech physicist who died in 1988 — and the subject of the stage homage QED — k... More >>

• Goblins at Every Turn

  published March 29, 2001

  If you remember Caryl Churchill‘s Top Girls, Cloud Nine, Serious Money or Mad Forest, you’ll recall these plays as being about people -- oft... More >>

• Desert Saints and Sinners

  published February 22, 2001

  An early “official” version of the sorriest chapter in Mormon history came from Utah Governor Brigham Young himself, who blamed local Paiu... More >>

• Good Grief

  published February 1, 2001

  Talk about having greatness thrust upon you . . . English playwright Edward Bond’s second play, Saved, premiered in a private performance a... More >>

• The 22nd Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominations

  published January 25, 2001

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• Testy, Testy

  published January 4, 2001

  Art by Bill SmithIn order to assess local theater activity over the past year, the Weekly spoke with three experts in the field who... More >>