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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2005 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Feodor Dostoyevsky’s Christmas Carol

  published December 29, 2005

  Just like Charles Dickens, and at about the same time at a continent’s remove, Feodor Dostoyevsky was also writing ... More >>

• The Third L.A. Weekly-Hosted Roundtable on New Play Development

  published December 8, 2005

  On October 27, the L.A. Weekly hosted the third of six roundtables on new-play development, in reaction to the... More >>

• Squinting Into the Sun

  published December 8, 2005

  Illustration by Max KornellJust a few years ago, I remember hearing actor William H. Macy, who had swept in from New York to... More >>

• Dam Christmas

  published December 1, 2005

  Photo by Bill RobensI spoke by phone last week with playwright/musician Bill Robens, who was in Bishop, California, preparing for the... More >>

• And Now for Something Completely Different . . .

  published November 24, 2005

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• Immorality Play

  published November 17, 2005

  Photo by John TramperFor the first time since its triumphant production of Twelfth Night two seasons ago, Shakespeare’... More >>

• Who's That Bard?

  published November 17, 2005

  One can’t in good faith write about the Globe Theatre of London’s Measure for Measure, currently on view at UCL... More >>

• Happy Ever-Aftering

  published October 13, 2005

  Weren’t we supposed to be the forward-thinking country that saves the world from oppression and ignorance? How exactly did we end u... More >>

• Living Treasures

  published October 6, 2005

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• All Eyes On New Orleans

  published September 15, 2005

  Though the New York Times wins first prize for outrage in its Katrina coverage (NYT columnist Maureen Dowd actually... More >>

• Tilling the Ground for New Work

  published September 15, 2005

  On September 1, the L.A. Weekly hosted the second in a series of six roundtable discussions on new-play development, this one... More >>

• Theater Union On a Rampage!

  published September 1, 2005

  Did you know there’s a satanic plot by Actors’ Equity (the stage actors’ trade union) to demolish the 99-Seat Plan (the hard-foug... More >>

• 9 Lives and Counting

  published September 1, 2005

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• Wrecking Ball Blues

  published August 25, 2005

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• Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2

  published August 11, 2005

  Illustration by Patrick MartinezOn July 21, the L.A. Weekly hosted a roundtable discussion among leaders in the theater... More >>

• Servicing Their Country

  published August 4, 2005

  Photo by Ed KriegerSinan Ünel is an expat Turkish playwright who named his 1998 drama, Pera Palas, after... More >>

• Making Hay

  published July 28, 2005

  Photo by Paul M. RubensteinAfter having read Bay Area scribe John O’Keefe’s program notes to his brand-new pla... More >>

• Good Charlotte

  published July 7, 2005

  Photo by Anne FishbeinIn the summer of 2000, a one-man play written by Doug Wright began its development process at the Sundance Institute.... More >>

• Our Nazis, Ourselves

  published June 30, 2005

  Photo by Craig SchwartzIn 2000, Nancy Keystone’s Akhmatova Project showed an ensemble of dancer-performers moving in rigi... More >>

• Pissed Off and Pissed On

  published June 9, 2005

  When Jean Genet started to write for the theater in the late 1940s, he had firmly established his credentials as an incorrigible thief, a... More >>

• Confrontations in a Con-Art World

  published June 2, 2005

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• The Great White Way

  published May 26, 2005

  Center Theater Group (CTG) artistic director Michael Ritchie says that, effective July 1, four play-development laboratories at the Mark... More >>

• The Scum Always Rises

  published May 19, 2005

  Photo by Maia RosenfeldBetween scrambling to America from Nazi Germany via the Soviet Union and Switzerland and being dragged before the... More >>

• White Trashed

  published May 5, 2005

  Photos by Ed KriegerThe phrase “Put yourself in my place” rings like an anthem in Thomas Gibbons’ eloquent and shrewdly observed drama about ... More >>

• Glittering Prizes

  published April 28, 2005

  Photos by Ted SoquiThough the 26th annual L.A. Weekly Theater awards — with cabaret seating at a new venue, the Henry Fonda — got off to... More >>