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: Apollo bound for Oregon

  published Oct 29, 2008

  center> APOLLO BOUND FOR OREGON After many years of development, the third part of director Nancy Keystone's Apollo trilogy ("Apollo (Part 3): Libertation) is on its way to completion, and the ent... More >>

• Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

  published Oct 27, 2008

  CTG RECEIVES $90,000 NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT GRANT As one of two recipients of NEA support for an its New American Play project, Center Theatre Group will receive $90,000 to support advanced develop... More >>

• Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man

  published October 23, 2008

  Ralph Harris' one-man show is the latest in a slew of recently performed, compelling solo performances (including Alex Lyras and Robert... More >>

• Stage Raw: Spring Awakening

  published Oct 24, 2008

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• Stage Raw: Confessions of a Subterranean Playwright

  published Oct 22, 2008

  WHAT'S NEW Post Fact Productions will be presenting 10 encore performances of their play New, a work written by Rachel Kolar and choreographed by Lauren Brown, opening Monday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. a... More >>

• DARE to be Funny

  published October 23, 2008

  Much of the propulsion in Matt Besser’s dance confection comes from the great breakdance interludes by the Bad Newz Bearz crew (Joel Lara,... More >>

• Ralph Harris' North Philly, and Robert Wilson's Challenge to the Way We Receive Stories

  published October 23, 2008

  On a night shortly before his production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion... More >>

• Stage Raw: To Ser With Love

  published Oct 20, 2008

  Sneak previews of the weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS found by pressing the READ MORE button at the bottom of this section. Reviewed over the ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Face It

  published Oct 17, 2008

  Good Bobby opens this weekend at Greenway Arts Allaince. Photo by Ed Krieger. Check back on Monday, after noon, for reviews of Good Bobby, plus Noel Coward's Waiting in the Wings featuring Bet... More >>

• Stage Raw: Playboy of the Western World

  published Oct 15, 2008

  Druid Theatre's Playboy of the Western World at UCLA Live. Photo by Nick Burchel Galway's Druid Theatre opened its touring two play repertory last night. >NEW REVIEW GO PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN... More >>

• Lies and Legends: Jay Sefton's The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

  published October 16, 2008

  Jay Sefton’s solo performance, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told, now at the Meta Theater until October 26, is... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Sequence

  published Oct 13, 2008

  The Sequence Photo by Ed Krieger Paul Mullin's The Sequence at Theater @ Boston Court is this week's Pick. Read this and the weekend's other NEW THEATER REVIEWS reviews of Two Trains Running a... More >>

• Stage Raw: Another L.A. Production in NYC

  published Oct 10, 2008

  Check back here on Monday for NEW THEATER REVIEWS reviews of Two Trains Running at the new Ebony Repertory Theatre; Clare Boothe Luce's The Women at the Hayworth; Bill Sterrritt's Nihil Obstat at ... More >>

• Razorback

  published October 9, 2008

  John Pollono’s “pitch-dark comedy” -- set in a rustic Maine cabin -- is packed with terrific roles. The roles may be richer than... More >>

• Politico!

  published October 9, 2008

  The idea of an almost entirely improvised rock opera based on a presidential campaign stuffs the ballot box with possibilities, but the final... More >>

• Stage Raw: You've Come to the Right Place

  published Oct 08, 2008

  You've come to the right place for this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS which were removed from this week's print edition due to space constraints. The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS can be f... More >>

• Culturally Unique: Actors' Equity Goes Soviet on UCLA Live

  published October 9, 2008

  Wednesday, October 1, was supposed to be the day UCLA Live’s seventh annual International Theatre Festival launched,... More >>

• The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

  published October 9, 2008

  In his autobiographical one-man show, Jay Sefton takes every aspect of the autobiographical one-man show and dismantles it before our eyes. This... More >>

• Stage Raw: Latino New Works Fest

  published Oct 06, 2008

  NEW THEATER REVIEWS are now in for this week's Theater Pick Hamlet at A Noise Within; also for the improvised rock opera, Politico! at Acme Comedy Theatre; a pair of musicals: Terrence McNally, Jo... More >>

• Stage Raw: Robert Wilson at USC

  published Oct 03, 2008

  Kiss of the Spider Woman now paying at Bootleg. Photo by Michael Lamont Check back here Monday after noon for an early peek (before they get posted to the Website or appear in print) of the late... More >>

• Dead Man's Cell Phone

  published October 2, 2008

  For about half of Act 1, Sarah Ruhl’s comedy clings (as though to an intriguing but weightless straw) to the situation of a young single... More >>

• The Wages of Greed

  published October 2, 2008

  Playwright John Clancy’s 2004 Edinburgh Fringe hit adaptation of Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi lands here just in time for the Wall... More >>

• Stage Raw: Actors Equity goes Soviet

  published Oct 01, 2008

  For the latest New Theater Reviews visit http://www.laweekly.com/2008-10-02/stage/put-heading-here/ For the latest theater feature on the larger purpose of the Mark Taper Forum, visit http://www.la... More >>

• Stage Raw: Abuse for Its Own Sake

  published Sep 29, 2008

  Abuse for Its Own Sake Needtheater's Fatboy is this week's Pick of the Week (See New Theater Reviews by pressing the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section.) It's John Clancy's vaudeville-clown... More >>

• Pugilist Specialist

  published September 25, 2008

  “Victory forgives dishonesty” is the telling slogan that punctuates Adriano Shaplin’s military comedy, wherein a quartet of U.S.... More >>