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

• 1001

  published May 22, 2008

  Jason Grote’s 1001, now playing at Pasadena’s Theatre at Boston Court after premiering last year at the Denver... More >>

• Pippin

  published May 22, 2008

  Tim Dang's hip-hop/anime staging of Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's 1972 Candide-like musical is one of the most taut and... More >>

• The March That Got Away

  published May 20, 2008

  The flyer from SMC Students Against Budget Cuts was impressive: A cartoon of the Guv all buffed up, standing behind a podium bearing the California state seal, while brandishing a gun. Out of the weap... More >>

• 1001: Jason Grote and his Arabian Nights

  published May 22, 2008

  Jason Grote is one of a generation of brainy new American dramatists — including Tracy Letts and Will Eno — who... More >>

• Flora, the Red Menace

  published May 15, 2008

  The Great Depression is showing up musicals all over the place. With music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and book by George Abbott, Flora... More >>

• Indecent Acts

  published May 15, 2008

  A quartet of short plays rides both sides of the line separating the combative from the sophomoric. Writer-director Coleman Hough’s... More >>

• A House With No Walls

  published May 15, 2008

  This third installment of Thomas Gibbons’ enthralling trilogy on race relations studies, with compassion, the loneliness of a woman much like... More >>

• Stacey Hooper

  published May 15, 2008

  Off Franklin Avenue, not far from architect Stacey Hooper’s home, is a severed tree trunk used as a bench. One day,... More >>

• Sheldon Epps

  published May 15, 2008

  In the decade since he took over as artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse, Sheldon Epps has... More >>

• Biking With Andrew Scott

  published May 8, 2008

  is an attempt to grapple with the processes of grief, after the suicide of an AIDS-afflicted young man, Andy (Robert Seeley), sends a trio of... More >>

• The Injured Party

  published May 8, 2008

  is Exhibit A from an excellent playwright (Richard Greenberg, Three Days of Rain) who is just coasting. Set in New York, it opens with a speech by... More >>

• Office Sonata

  published May 8, 2008

  The first thing you notice about Danny Cistone’s glossy NYC advertising-agency set, for Andy Chmelko’s workplace satire, is how the... More >>

• The Glass Menagerie

  published May 8, 2008

  Who’d have guessed that the image of a tiny glass unicorn, and the severing of its horn, could still pack such an emotional punch in... More >>

• Westsiders Slam Villaraigosa's Push for Apartments Citywide

  published May 8, 2008

  SENIOR CITY PLANNER Jane Blumenfeld must have known something was up when about a dozen “observers” at a... More >>

• Max Maven Thinking in Person

  published March 27, 2008

  porting a goatee and a haircut chiseled into a receded serpent’s tooth in the front, Max Maven cuts a figure that could have been carved by... More >>

• Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest

  published May 8, 2008

  Seventy-five guests from America’s regional theaters converged on Costa Mesa for South Coast Repertory’s 11th... More >>

• References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot

  published May 1, 2008

  Now stuck out in Barstow, Gabriela (Carolina Phipps) has nine years of solitude to go before her GI husband, Benito (Ruben Ortiz), returns... More >>

• The Mission (Accomplished)

  published May 1, 2008

  At Santa Monica’s City Garage, Charles Duncombe’s adaptation of Heiner Müller’s text The Mission, which Duncombe retitled The... More >>

• Scott Ritter and The Mission (Accomplished)

  published May 1, 2008

  Last month, the first installment in Moving Arts Theater’s monthly discussion program, "The War Plays Project,"... More >>

• Flavio Medium de los Muertos

  published April 24, 2008

  Around found-object shrines and a set laced with silks, Mike Okarma portrays an Argentinean channeler of ghosts named Flavio, which gives the... More >>

• No Exit

  published April 24, 2008

  is more artifice and attitude than a persuasive cauldron among three new residents of Purgatory — all of whom have done rotten things in life... More >>

• Beaverquest! The Musical

  published April 10, 2008

  Sacred Fools Theatre Company has made a spectacular return from an era of what company members have described as the dysfunction of yore.... More >>

• Freak Dance: The Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo

  published April 17, 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 >>

• Ride This: Confessions of a Whore on Santa Monica Public Transport

  published April 17, 2008

  As I glide up Lincoln Boulevard on the No. 3 Santa Monica Blue Bus, there isn’t much to look at on a Monday evening. ... More >>

• Freak Dance: the Forbidden Dirty Boogaloo

  published April 17, 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 >>