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

• Scaredycats

  published August 28, 2008

  As the Neighborhood Watch group in Cheryl Bascom’s new farce is arriving at the home of the Pudneys (Julian Berlin and Dan Wingard) —... More >>

• The Pavilion

  published August 28, 2008

  Craig Wright (Orange Flower Water, Recent Tragic Events) wrote this play “about time,” in 2005, and this is its Los... More >>

• Agamemnon

  published August 28, 2008

  The word “justice” and “destiny” keep gurgling up in Robert Fagles' translation of Aeschylus' 2500-year old tragedy, and both... More >>

• Coriolanus

  published August 28, 2008

  Intermingling war veterans and theater professionals, director Stephan Wolfert has pared Shakespeare’s epic about the Roman warrior Caius... More >>

• Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

  published August 28, 2008

  On August 13, as part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ annual Combat/Operational Stress Conference, 300 people gathered in a... More >>

• Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

  published Aug 25, 2008

  Bury the Dead just opened at the Actors' Gang. Photo by Jean-Louis Darville. You can find this week's New Theater Reviews embedded in the new theater listings. Press the READ ON at the bottom of t... More >>

• Alley Cat

  published August 21, 2008

  Marnie Olson plays voluptuous Carma in her play (co-written with director Caroline Marshall) about a female sex addict trying to fathom the depths... More >>

• Getting Jiggy

  published August 21, 2008

  Máire Clerkin comes from Irish stock and grew up in London. This blend might explain her satirically grim portrait of the world she grew up... More >>

• Stage Raw: Ajax and Zappa

  published Aug 21, 2008

  For this week's New Reviews, go to http://www.laweekly.com/2008-08-21/stage/reviews-of-the-bad-arm-confessions-of-a-dodgy-irish-dancer-alley-cat-and-some-kind-of-love-story/ For the current comprehe... More >>

• Stage Raw

  published Aug 19, 2008

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• Speaking in Tongues

  published August 14, 2008

  In her solo show, actor Eliza Jane Schneider explains that she had to leave her student life at UCLA so that she could learn something. And leave... More >>

• Stage Raw

  published Aug 14, 2008

  Please see below for comprehensive theater listings that replicate the global format found in the print edition, compiled by Derek Thomas. This new stage blog -- to be posted once a week -- is till ... More >>

• Beethoven, As I Knew Him: The Music of Ludwig van Beethoven

  published August 14, 2008

  Writer-performer Hershey Felder is the Liberace of the 21st century — and a better pianist, too. This is not entirely a compliment, despite... More >>

• Lack-of-Talent ShowcaseBeverly Winwood Presents the Actors Showcase

  published August 14, 2008

  With her chrome-plated red bob, manicured nails and chiseled, toothy smile, private acting coach Beverly Winwood (Susan Yeagly) checks in industry... More >>

• Retired Russian Army Colonel Criticizes U.S. Actions in Iraq Even as Tanks Roll in Georgia

  published August 14, 2008

  The Russian Bear Roars On a balmy July afternoon in central Moscow, on the outdoor patio of a café around... More >>

• Lack of Talent Showcase

  published August 14, 2008

  THEATER PICK  BEVERLY WINWOOD PRESENTS THE ACTORS SHOWCASE With her chrome-plated red bob, manicured nails and chiseled,... More >>

• Groove au GoGo

  published August 7, 2008

  Brilliant shards sparkle in what’s otherwise a broken plate-glass window — what creator Jason M. Solomon calls “an acid... More >>

• The Gulls

  published August 7, 2008

  Playwright Nick Salamone and composer Maurice McIntyre have loosely adapted Chekhov’s The Seagull to America of the 1950s, handily... More >>

• Bad Penny

  published August 7, 2008

  consists of speeches and dialogues by Mac Wellman that accrue into a theatrical poem/meditation on American life, while casting doubt on the... More >>

• Dr. Faustus

  published August 7, 2008

  Dr. Faustus goes to hell, and J. Paul Boehmer’s portrayal of the title character in a 90-minute version of Christopher Marlowe’s... More >>

• Local Theater News: The Taper, Galatea and Paul Brennan

  published Aug 01, 2008

  Theater News: The Mark Taper Forum's $30 Million Face Lift; Galatea aims for Fringe NYC festival; Company of Angeles former president Paul Brennan dies. TAPER FACELIFT On Tuesday morning, Center ... More >>

• American Dead

  published July 31, 2008

  Brett Neveu’s play, first commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago — where the playwright earned his wunderkind reputation... More >>

• SUMMER CAMP AT SACRED FOOLS

  published July 31, 2008

  The late-night shows change every week, but if Fun Time With Quirk & Rayner is an accurate indication of the standard, the rest of the run... More >>

• MTA's Toxic Towers in Van Nuys

  published July 31, 2008

  LESS THAN 72 HOURS BEFORE last Thursday’s Metropolitan Transit Authority board meeting, a proposal to build a vast,... More >>

• The Wizard of REDCAT: Mark Murphy presents ...

  published July 31, 2008

  Los Angeles has two “presenters” for theater operating in larger venues. These are guys whose main job is to... More >>