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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2007 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Royal Pains: King Richard II and Power

  published August 9, 2007

  King Richard II was probably gay. He was born in 1367. Apparently there were gays even back then.Richard had two wives and no children... More >>

• A Zillion New Neighbors

  published August 2, 2007

  AT THE JULY 25 MEETING of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council in the tony Bunker Hill Towers, David Robinson, a slender man in... More >>

• The First Post-Bush Bash

  published July 26, 2007

  Inauguration Day 2009, officially ending the Bush era, bodes poorly for what’s been a flush time for political stage parodies (from Rik... More >>

• The Last Egg Man

  published July 19, 2007

  THEY SAY GROWTH IS inevitable, and that’s why elected officials are bent on making room by the year 2050 for what some official... More >>

• Into the Woods

  published July 12, 2007

  While working on a production at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, Joe Tyler Gold was surprised to discover that among the large cast, he was... More >>

• The Return of N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk

  published June 28, 2007

  {mosimage}“All of my folks hate all of your folks/It’s American as apple pie.”—Tom Leh... More >>

• Rhinoceros, Hamlet and the Call of the Dead

  published June 14, 2007

  {mosimage} In Eugene Ionesco’s 1958 farce, Rhinoceros More >>

• Palace of the End

  published June 14, 2007

  With echoes of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Canadian playwright Judith Thompson paints a richly textured portrait of a world throug... More >>

• the [inside] Performances

  published June 7, 2007

  With 95 percent of theater in Los Angeles created and attended by Caucasians — now a statistical minority of the city’s population... More >>

• Naked Rebellion

  published May 31, 2007

  “No nipples and no pink,” said Tiffany over the phone, explaining how even the boundary-bending Vixen Kabarett created by students at... More >>

• Face Off

  published May 31, 2007

  In August of 1990, when British producer Cameron Mackintosh wanted to bring Miss Saigon from London’s West End to Broadway with Wels... More >>

• American Theater's Failure of Nerve

  published May 24, 2007

  A few weeks ago, the Pulitzer Prize for drama was awarded to David Lindsay-Abaire’s The Rabbit Hole, a study of a marriage in the... More >>

• When Johnny Comes Marching Homeless

  published May 3, 2007

  Darin Anthony’s staging of Ann Noble’s drama The Boarding House (presented by the excellent Interact Theatre Company at the Wri... More >>

• Laughter and Its Echoes

  published April 26, 2007

  Comedian Diz White is a sharp, funny Englishwoman who launched her career in the late ’70s with two performances that have become part o... More >>

• Dancing On the Moon

  published April 26, 2007

  It’s kind of funny given their prodigious knowledge and love of music coming out of the first few decades of the 20th century that both Roge... More >>

• The 28th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

  published April 12, 2007

  Who’d have guessed that in the summer of ‘43, Gordon Davidson offed an inept stage manager named Dick Watson who had come out West ... More >>

• Origin of a Species: Sky Pilot Theatre

  published April 5, 2007

  L.A.’s actor-driven ensembles are the mainstay of local theatrical activity — 150 to 200 of them at any given time. Some have been here f... More >>

• Daisy Eagan: No Exit

  published April 5, 2007

  Several months after winning an L.A. Weekly Theater Award trophy for Supporting Female in last season’s production of Michael Joh... More >>

• Mark Seldis and the Woman Who Rescued Him

  published April 5, 2007

  {mosimage}It was back in 2001, after a period of extended distraction with sundry film projects, that... More >>

• Building an Ensemble in Ego-ville

  published April 5, 2007

  {mosimage}In January 2005, Olga Petrakova walked into the theater that her co–artistic director, Bra... More >>

• “it’s What we Do”

  published April 5, 2007

  I got a call last month from a public-relations exec, pleading on behalf of some producers who wanted, or thought they wanted, some press for... More >>

• LA Theater 2007: To Play, or Not to Play, That Is the Question

  published April 5, 2007

  Since the early 1920s, Los Angeles has been a magnet for artists of all stripes. Even though movie-studio politics and a blockbuster ethos wore... More >>

• God Shed His Grace On Thee

  published March 22, 2007

  Zack Snyder’s just-released film, 300, is a hit — a flashy, fleshy, violent account of the Battle of Thermopylae, during which 3... More >>

• Moment After Moment After Moment, an Era Fades

  published March 8, 2007

  The King of Boyd Street is dead, and an era in local performance history passes with him. Through the 1980s, impresario Scott... More >>

• Moscow Shakedown

  published March 1, 2007

  The attitude of the check-in clerk at Gate 24 of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport is far too stern for her soft complexion and silky auburn hair... More >>