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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2006 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Weekend Theater Reviews

  published June 22, 2006

  {mosimage}PICK GO A NERVOUS SMILE John Belluso, confined to a wheelchair his entire life due to a bone disorder that restricted muscle strength,... More >>

• Agamemnon

  published June 15, 2006

  Charles L. Mee’s adaptation of Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy (the first in this theater’s season, called “Three by... More >>

• The Man Who Walked Into the Sea

  published June 15, 2006

  In April of 2003, monologist Spalding Gray walked into the sea at Bridgehampton, fully dressed, then walked back out again, disoriented. It was... More >>

• The Prince of Norway

  published June 8, 2006

  My pet rooster Fortinbras, named after the Prince of Norway in Hamlet, was hatched in a plastic incubator in my living room and grew up... More >>

• Wishing Well

  published June 1, 2006

  Earlier this year, in a review of the Taper’s Cherry Orchard with Alfred Molina and Annette Bening, I raised the possibility that... More >>

• Guerrillas in Our Midst

  published May 25, 2006

  It’s midday, and I’m sitting in a booth at Victor’s restaurant in Hollywood with a couple of suspicious-looking characters who... More >>

• Guerrillas in Our Midst

  published May 25, 2006

  It’s midday, and I’m sitting in a booth at Victor’s restaurant in Hollywood with a couple of suspicious-looking characters who... More >>

• Daddy Warbucks and the Temple of Doom

  published May 18, 2006

  They don’t write plays like All My Sons anymore. Arthur Miller was clearly following the ancient Greek template, a template... More >>

• The Conversation

  published May 11, 2006

  It was the last speech of the class, at the end of the day, near the end of the semester — a time when exhaustion and expedience overrule... More >>

• Boy Snubs Girl, Girl Beheads Boy

  published May 4, 2006

  Al Pacino is quite good onstage reprising his Oscar-winning turn in Scent of a Woman, now playing at the Wadsworth. Inexplicably,... More >>

• Theater 2005

  published April 27, 2006

  With apprehension-stirring changes crashing into both our country and our local theater scene at a faster pace than we’ve seen recently,... More >>

• Look Forward in Anger

  published April 20, 2006

  “Of course there’s a bias against the left!” says Ed Asner over the phone. “This is an essentially conservative... More >>

• Welcome to Our Party

  published April 13, 2006

  The cast of Blank Theater Company’s 2005 production of The Wild Party hosted the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards at... More >>

• Five Degrees of Separation

  published April 6, 2006

  A few months ago, somebody stole my pet chicken, Clifford. I’d stowed her overnight inside a cat carrier placed in my Hollywood... More >>

• Young at Heart

  published April 6, 2006

  A light rain falls on the streets of Poznan, Poland, where a long line of people wait patiently behind a steel fence, hoping to buy a theater... More >>

• Eight Seconds at a Time

  published April 6, 2006

  From my vantage inside the train, I looked down onto the platform of the Rialto station — that’s one stop west of San Bernardino on... More >>

• Farting in Church

  published March 30, 2006

  There’s something telling in how all those political plays that suddenly swept across America (and England, of course, which is really... More >>

• New York Stage Review: Hedda Gabler

  published March 16, 2006

  GO HEDDA GABLER A year and a half after premiering as Hedda Gabler in Australia, Cate Blanchett makes her U.S. stage debut in Sydney Theatre... More >>

• Theater Reviews

  published March 9, 2006

  {mosimage} DARWIN’S PÂTÉ Ditsy Bonnie (Sarah Zoe Canner) lives with her infirm but abusive mom (Caren Larae Larkey) in a rundown... More >>

• Hamburger Hamlets

  published March 9, 2006

  I never dreamed I’d be defending vanity showcases, but here goes. Welcome to Hollywood, where Hamlets keep sprouting like... More >>

• Classical Gas

  published February 23, 2006

  Generations of drama students have been taught that Chekhov wrote classics, works that endure the tempests of the decades. We’ve been... More >>

• Final Destination

  published February 23, 2006

  On my way home to Hollywood on a recent evening, after teaching a World Theater course at Cal State San Bernardino, I was walking with Marquis,... More >>

• The Distributor Who Wasn't There

  published February 16, 2006

  As I was walking up the stair,I met a man who wasn’t there.He wasn’t there again today.I wish, I... More >>

• New Theater Reviews

  published February 16, 2006

  GO BASH Neil LaBute’s trio of one-acts posits a disturbing truth: The most innocuous people are capable of the vilest acts. Iphigenia in Ore... More >>

• The Lawees Are Coming; The Lawees Are Coming!

  published February 9, 2006

  Blank Theater Company will host the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards on Monday, April 10, at the Music Box @ Fonda, 6126 Hollywood Blvd.... More >>