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: Creative Criticism

  published Sep 26, 2008

  The Great Election at the Odyssey Theatre. Photo by Greg Jardin For this weekend's comprehensive theater listings, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. Check back here Monday aft... More >>

• Stage Raw: Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas

  published Sep 24, 2008

  For last weekend's New Theater Reviews plus the latest comprehensive theater listings for this coming weekend, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. The West Coast premiere of T... More >>

• John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves: Renewal at the Mark Taper Forum

  published September 25, 2008

  The title of John Guare’s 1971 farce, The House of Blue Leaves, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum, refers to... More >>

• Stage Raw: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex-Presidents

  published Sep 22, 2008

  Rave reviews this week for 43 Plays for 43 Presidents at Sacred Fools Theatre, and 9 to 5: The Musical at the Ahmanson For these, and more, plus the latest comprehensive theater listings for this ... More >>

• Stage Raw: On the Blume

  published Sep 19, 2008

  For the latest comprehensive theater listings for this coming weekend, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. Check back here Monday, after noon, for the latest New Theater Reviews ... More >>

• The Friendly Hour

  published September 18, 2008

  Tom Jacobson’s lovely new play chronicles the rituals of a women’s club in rural South Dakota from the late 1930s to 2007, and we watch... More >>

• The Lunatics and the Asylum

  published September 18, 2008

  John Guare's 1971 farce looks gorgeous in the newly minted Mark Taper Forum — a venue now as fresh and plush as any in the city. The... More >>

• A Bronx Tale

  published September 18, 2008

  Almost 20 years since it premiered in L.A. at Theatre West and was discovered by Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri’s Broadway hit, solo memoir... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage Gets Its Premiere 29 Years On

  published September 18, 2008

  Some people can just see things coming. In 1979, one year before Ronald Reagan was elected president, Frank Zappa wrote a rock... More >>

• Stage Raw: Speech & Debate

  published Sep 17, 2008

  For the latest New Theater Reviews press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section and for comprehensive theater listings for this coming weekend, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this se... More >>

• Stage Raw: Underestimating Public Intelligence

  published Sep 15, 2008

  For the latest New Theater Reviews press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. New Reviews include Chazz Palminteri's hit Broadway memoir, A Bronx Tale, at the Wadsworth; John Guare's far... More >>

• Stage Raw: A New Era, or Just Another Robinsonsr

  published Sep 12, 2008

  For this week's Theater Feature on Agamemnon at the Getty Villa, visit http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/stage/agamemnon-at-the-getty-villa/ For the latest New Theater Reviews and comprehensive ... More >>

• Stage Raw: In Defense of Sarah Palin

  published Sep 10, 2008

  For this week's Theater Feature on Agamemnon at the Getty Villa, visit http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-11/stage/agamemnon-at-the-getty-villa/ For the latest New Theater Reviews and comprehensive t... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Redhead Musical Manifesto, The Belle of Amherst

  published September 11, 2008

  AGAMEMNON Stephen Wadsworth stages Robert Fagles’ translation of Aeschylus’ tragedy in the amphitheater at the Getty... More >>

• Agamemnon at the Getty Villa

  published September 11, 2008

  One of the many curses raining down on the House of Atreus stems from a feud between the master of that house and his jealous... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Sarah Palin Dictionary

  published Sep 08, 2008

  For comprehensive theater listings for this coming week, plus the latest New Theater Reviews, press the READ ON tab at the bottom of this section. Seeing Red R.R.R.E.D. -- The Redhead Musical M... More >>

• A Scholar Is Born

  published September 4, 2008

  Director Cameron Watson's lovingly staged production of British playwright Willy Russell's updated 1980 stage play for two actors (probably better... More >>

• Cheering Section

  published September 4, 2008

  There have been rumblings about how the creative team for the adaptation of Jack Heifner and David Kirshenbaum's musical adaptation of Heifner's... More >>

• L.A. Metro Buses Hammered by Potholes on Aging Wilshire Boulevard

  published September 11, 2008

  ON THE AFTERNOON OF JULY 11, I was riding the Wilshire Rapid Express, bus line 920, a rush-hour express that makes only five... More >>

• Stage Raw: Zombie Joe's Underground Scores in New York

  published Sep 05, 2008

  The Labor Day weekend's New Theater Reviews are now online at http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-04/stage/also-spider-bites-hands-on-therapy-more/ For comprehensive theater listings, press the READ O... More >>

• Stage Raw: Last Call for "Wicked"

  published Sep 03, 2008

  The Labor Day weekend's New Theater Reviews are now online at http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-04/stage/also-spider-bites-hands-on-therapy-more/ For comprehensive theater listings, press the READ O... More >>

• Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

  published September 4, 2008

  When, in the midst of being treated for ravaging brain cancer, Edward M. Kennedy opposed doctors’ orders and took the... More >>

• Stage Raw: Better Late Than Neverr

  published Sep 01, 2008

  Reviewed over the Labor Day Weekend: Troubadour Theater Company's As U2 Like It at the Falcon, Bouncers at the Lost Studio, Boyle Heights at Casa 0101, Educating Rita at the Colony Theatre, Fucking ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Who Needs Playsr

  published Aug 29, 2008

  Who Needs Playsr On Wednesday's posting on this blog, the mention that Pasadena Playhouse's production of Vanities, the Musical (opening tonight to the press) was Broadway bound came with the publi... More >>

• Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

  published Aug 27, 2008

  For this week's New Theater Reviews, visit http://www.laweekly.com/2008-08-28/stage/put-heading-here/ (Note: The Website continues to experience technical difficulties; only six of nine new reviews... More >>