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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2002 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Riff Raft

  published November 28, 2002

  Alright, two cheers: One for the Mark Taper Forum finally putting a local stage troupe (Deaf West Theater) in one of its regular mainstage... More >>

• Tree Hugger

  published November 21, 2002

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• Ray Bradbury's Faust

  published November 14, 2002

  Photo by Dennis J. Kent "MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN" IS PROBABLY the most famous line from Russian novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's now famous and once... More >>

• A Bricklayer's Story

  published October 24, 2002

  Photo by Ben van Duin IN 1933, A CHILDLIKE BRICKLAYER FROM LEIDEN, HOLLAND, decides to walk to China. That being too far, he settles for... More >>

• Romeo and Genesi

  published October 10, 2002

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• The Oldest Living Most-Promising Theater City in the World

  published October 10, 2002

  Remember Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the off-Broadway hit that skulked out of the Henry Fonda Theater in 1999 after losing $600,000 with its... More >>

• Articles of Faith

  published September 19, 2002

  In the early and mid-20th century, a fledgling theatrical movement known as Theological Drama grappled head-on with the existence of God. The... More >>

• Life Studies

  published August 29, 2002

  Photo by Ed Krieger UCLA, 1979. THE RALPH FREUD PLAYHOUSE IS OVERFLOWING with students who leap to their feet at the sight of a tired old man... More >>

• Growing Together

  published August 29, 2002

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• Family Man

  published August 22, 2002

  I remember a performance in the late ‘80s, in one of the Taper’s New Works festivals, by John Fleck. Tall, slender and charismatic, he dra... More >>

• Grand Illusions

  published August 8, 2002

  Laura Comstock’s Bag-Punching Dog is a perfect little musical for Los Angeles theater -- not because it‘s a perfect production, but becau... More >>

• What Were Those Unforgettable Lines?

  published July 25, 2002

  Kenneth Lonergan‘s 1999 drama, The Waverly Gallery, has taken quite a few hits from critics over the course of its many productions around th... More >>

• The Day Job

  published July 18, 2002

  On a sweltering weekday afternoon at Mount Sinai Memorial Park, the famous Jewish cemetery nestled into the Valley side of the Hollywood Hills,... More >>

• Dialogic Dialectic

  published June 20, 2002

  HOMEBODYKABUL | By TONY KUSHNER | At BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATER, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley | Through July 14 | (510) 647-2949 Last... More >>

• Man Without a Country

  published June 6, 2002

  Photo by Craig Schwartz WORKING IN A POLITICALLY OPPRESSIVE PLACE IS A great career move for a writer, though the oppression needs to be... More >>

• Don’t Look Back

  published May 30, 2002

  Photo by Christina Radish WAITING FOR BETTY FRIEDAN, ANN MARCUS' FREEwheeling adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, holds a... More >>

• Steamy, Steamy Night

  published May 2, 2002

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• Martha Demson, Feeling Game

  published April 25, 2002

  It was perhaps unfair to put an interview subject through such a test, but Martha Demson, artistic director of Hollywood‘s Open Fist Theater... More >>

• Tony Plana, Beyond Borders

  published April 25, 2002

  Photo by Anne Fishbein "DRIVE IT! I WANT YOU TO GRAB THOSE CHILDREN BY the jugular, so they don't know what hit them!" With his youthful... More >>

• Jessica Kubzansky and Her Love Affair

  published April 25, 2002

  It took over a month to get together with Jessica Kubzansky. Between commitments for directing plays in all corners of the country and... More >>

• Introduction

  published April 25, 2002

  LOS ANGELES THEATER'S RICH HISTORY -- DATING BACK TO 1870s vaudeville in El Pueblo -- is often ignored or forgotten, and frequently... More >>

• Yankee Diddle

  published April 18, 2002

  Photo by Jason Adams IN BRIAN COUSINS' FIRST PLAY, A DRAMA IN 33 SCENES titled And Still the Dogs, an unnamed American businessman... More >>

• Circle Jerks

  published April 4, 2002

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• Laughing in the Dark

  published March 14, 2002

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• French Toast

  published March 7, 2002

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