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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2008 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

  published Nov 26, 2008

  CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert... More >>

• Adapting Oliver Twist and The Joy Luck Club for the Stage

  published November 27, 2008

  “It wasn’t as good as the book” is a standard, snarky response to film and stage adaptations of stories or... More >>

• Rider on the Storm: The Best and Worst of L.A. Buses, Subways and Light Rail

  published November 27, 2008

  With all the bad news out there about our local public transportation, it’s no wonder that so many of us don’t... More >>

• Stage Raw: One Sucker's Lament

  published Nov 24, 2008

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• The Joy Luck Club

  published November 20, 2008

  The quartet of mothers from feudal China and their American daughters form the heart of Amy Tan's novel, and her screenplay for Wayne Wang's 1993... More >>

• The School of Night

  published November 20, 2008

  Peter Whelan's talky history drama, set between 1592 and 1593, cuts to the purpose of art. There's no doubt this purpose deserves some explanation... More >>

• How the Hall Changes Spring Awakening and The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

  published November 20, 2008

  “They forgot to turn on the fans,” said a theater rep during the intermission of Molière’s The Bourgeois... More >>

• Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

  published Nov 19, 2008

  BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

  published Nov 17, 2008

  THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY O... More >>

• Eat the Runt

  published November 13, 2008

  What a discomfiting feeling it is to be reviewing a play in a theater with only two other people behind me — particularly a play about a... More >>

• By the Waters of Babylon

  published November 13, 2008

  There’s delicate poetical imagery in Robert Schenkkan’s 2005 drama about the meeting of and fleeting romance between two exiles in an... More >>

• The Bourgeois Gentilhomme

  published November 13, 2008

  You’d think, from reading the world press, that racism and, by extension, classism, had suddenly been vanquished from the nation —... More >>

• Cute With Chris: Live

  published November 13, 2008

  Aside from his TV career, Canadian actor Chris Leavins made his name by creating one of the most popular series on the Internet – 100,000... More >>

• Oliver Twist

  published November 13, 2008

  The austere beauty of Julia Rodriguez-Elliott’s staging (of Neil Barlett’s excellent adaptation) comes from a haunting blend of... More >>

• Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

  published Nov 14, 2008

  Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan ... More >>

• Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

  published Nov 12, 2008

  A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT LEPAGE Canadian Robert Lepage is an internationally preeminent director-actor, whose work is often compared with that of his contemporaries, Robert Wilson and Peter Br... More >>

• Stage Raw: Cute With Chris: Live

  published Nov 10, 2008

  How could Chris Leavins exploit such cute little creatures. Find out in Cute With Chris: Live Photo by Yoko Takashi >NEW REVIEW GO CUTE WITH CHRIS: LIVE Aside from his TV career, Canadian act... More >>

• Spring Awakening

  published November 6, 2008

  What’s a nice play like you doing in a barn like this? The spectacle here is bewitching and too large for Frank Wedekind’s... More >>

• Stage Raw: By the Waters of Babylon

  published Nov 07, 2008

  Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Christopher Durang's Miss Witherspoon in its West Coast premiere at the El Centro Theatre; Rachel Kolar and Lauren Brown's experimental... More >>

• Stage Raw: Major New Arts Fest Slated for L.A.

  published Nov 05, 2008

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• Stage Raw: Surviving the Surviving Critics

  published Nov 03, 2008

  For the weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Spring Awakening at the Ahmanson; Ron Sossi's staging of Brecht's A Man's a Man at the Odyssey; Virginia Watson's solo perf, Better Late Than Never at the ... More >>

• The Lady With All the Answers

  published October 30, 2008

  A woman sitting a few seats down the row from me was completely amazed by Mimi Kennedy’s impersonation of the late, nationally syndicated... More >>

• Pin-Up Girls

  published October 30, 2008

  Set designer Starlet Jacobs sets the stage with ’40s memorabilia — racks of vintage costumes adorn the playing area and a model of a... More >>

• U.S. Drag

  published October 30, 2008

  “I want a lot. What do we have to do to get a lot?” says Angela (Megan Goodchild) to her best friend, Allison (Katie Davies), as the... More >>

• Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

  published Oct 31, 2008

  center> MILTON KATSELAS DIES AT 75 Rumors had been swirling for about a week, but official word came in on Wednesday that teacher-director Melton Katselas, who founded Camelot Artists Theatre 20... More >>