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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2004 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Homo Repair

  published December 30, 2004

  Photo by Craig SchwartzJon Robin Baitz may be a wonderful, erudite writer, with a new play closing this week at an important new... More >>

• 10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

  published December 23, 2004

  Photo by Steve Gunther1. Francesco Vitali as Hamlet at the Tamarind Theater in what must be the vanity show of the decade. Budgeted... More >>

• One for All

  published December 9, 2004

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• Misery Loves Caroline

  published November 18, 2004

  Photo by Michal DanielIn short, there’s simply not A more congenial spot, For happy-ever-aftering Than here i... More >>

• Guare on Breeze

  published November 11, 2004

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• Happy Days

  published October 21, 2004

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• An Emotive Othello

  published October 14, 2004

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• An Hour With Moses

  published September 23, 2004

  Photo by Stacy Kranitz The guy on the line gives me directions, and I slog down Gower to Paramount Studios. Lo and behold, on Sound... More >>

• Max-imizer

  published September 23, 2004

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• Spirited Away

  published September 16, 2004

  Photo by Matt Smith When it comes to showing us the way, political theater is about as dead as political discourse in this country. On the... More >>

• Taking Offense

  published September 2, 2004

  Jacqueline Wright’s graphic play Eat Me — about a suicidal woman living in squalor who’s brutalized by two rapists — sets... More >>

• New Plays on the Big Stage

  published August 19, 2004

  With the opening this fall of the Mark Taper Forum’s Westside satellite — Culver City’s freshly redesigned, re-named 300-seat Kirk Doug... More >>

• Sewing Circle

  published August 19, 2004

  Photo by Craig Schwartz THERE ARE SOMETIMES advantages to seeing a newish play, Intimate Apparel, at the Taper more than a year... More >>

• Comedy, Sex and Being Recognized

  published August 5, 2004

  Photo by Alan Traeger In 1984, the curator of San Francisco’s Galeria de la Raza, Rene Yanez, came up with the then-novel idea of ... More >>

• Opera’s Crude Cousin Grown Up

  published July 22, 2004

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• Verne-al Equinox

  published July 8, 2004

  Photo by Michael Lamont By fluke, a local stage adaptation (by Mark Brown) of Jules Verne’s 1872 novel, Around the World in 80 Day... More >>

• Or Not To Be

  published June 24, 2004

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• Lu Leonard, 1927–2004

  published June 10, 2004

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• Peeking Through the Stage Door

  published May 20, 2004

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• Company Town

  published April 22, 2004

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• Honoring a Legend

  published April 22, 2004

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• Political Toys in the Attic

  published April 15, 2004

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• T.H. McCulloh: 1934-2004

  published April 1, 2004

  Local theater critic Thomas (a.k.a. T.H.) McCulloh died Sunday of complications resulting from congestive heart failure at the age of 69.... More >>

• Liar Liar, House on Fire

  published March 25, 2004

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• Russian Around

  published March 11, 2004

  Photo by Elaina McBroom At parties attended by theater folk, you mention the name Anton Chekhov and the mood turns thick with piety. To lift... More >>