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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2003 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Pitch, Bitch and Queen: The Best in Theater

  published December 25, 2003

  Pitch of the Year: Perhaps it was just flattery by the publicist in order to get his production reviewed, but whose heart wouldn’... More >>

• All That Jazz

  published December 18, 2003

  There’s not much that’s more disheartening than listening to Frank Sinatra crooning Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson”... More >>

• Ten Weeks That Changed the City

  published December 11, 2003

  There are routine upheavals in Southern California that blow people and things apart, but every once in a few decades we experience an... More >>

• From Rags to Ritchie

  published December 4, 2003

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• Guys and Dolls

  published November 6, 2003

  New York’s Variety critic stood outside the foyer of UCLA’s Ralph Freud Playhouse last Wednesday as the curtain was about to go up ... More >>

• Edging Your Bets

  published October 30, 2003

  Illustration by Erik Sandberg Only in Los Angeles would stage artists — capable of approximately 1,200 productions per year in L.A. Count... More >>

• Queens of the Angels

  published October 16, 2003

  In a black month for L.A. Weekly’s Queens of the Angels, Back Stage West senior critic Polly Warfield (the original honoree an... More >>

• Marked

  published October 2, 2003

  Photo by Manuel Vason How does a nice Jewish girl from North London wind up displaying her naked, tattooed body before hundreds of people in... More >>

• Millennium Reproaches

  published September 25, 2003

  Photo by Jim Newberry “I love the world! I love love love love the world!” exults an Englishwoman named Homebody in Tony Kushne... More >>

• Spoke Her Peace

  published September 4, 2003

  “The passing of an era” is one of those clichés that tends to accompany the death of a figurehead, but in the case of teacher–career activis... More >>

• Ken Arno, Chick Magnate

  published August 28, 2003

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov Old Ken Arno has a farm, with plenty of cluck-clucks here and a bleat-bleat there: More than 2,000 critters,... More >>

• The Buck Starts Here

  published August 21, 2003

  Photo by Ted Soqui It’s official: Now that the state budget has been approved, the California Arts Council’s funding has been slashed ... More >>

• Another Day in Paradise

  published July 31, 2003

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• Once More, With Feeling

  published July 31, 2003

  On July 31, the Cultural Affairs Department will choose one of eight applicants to run the city-owned Los Angeles Theater Center. The city is... More >>

• The CEO and the Lynch Mob

  published July 10, 2003

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• How to Survive a Depression Without Really Crying

  published July 3, 2003

  Photo by Christopher Kuhl A quick look back at the slogans used by early progressives, labor union leaders in the ’30s and anti-war protester... More >>

• Shipwrecked

  published July 3, 2003

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• Let Them Drink Beer

  published June 19, 2003

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• Object Lessons

  published June 12, 2003

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov After collecting millions of dollars of investments for a Broadway show they’re literally banking on being a flo... More >>

• Still Searching for Signs

  published May 22, 2003

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• Burning Down the House

  published May 15, 2003

  From the start of his sometimes clumsy yet riveting 1997 thriller, Chimps, playwright Simon Block has it in for his central character.... More >>

• Some Enchanted Evening

  published May 8, 2003

  Photos by Ted Soqui Thanks to generously brief speeches by most of the award recipients and the efficiency of host/co-producer Ziggurat... More >>

• Destiny Manifesto

  published May 1, 2003

  Photo by Anne Fishbein The first L.A. Weekly appeared in December 1978, two years before the nation would vote to boot Jimmy Carter out... More >>

• Raye Creevey

  published May 1, 2003

  Co-founder in 1965 of East/West Players, and resident lighting designer there until a debilitating stroke in 1991, Rae Creevey died last month... More >>

• Exit Stage Left, Slowly

  published May 1, 2003

  "I’m not retiring, I’m moving on," says artistic director/producer Gordon Davidson, 70, who now oversees programming at t... More >>