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

• Great Expectations

  published April 10, 2008

  Even after years of development, the stresses between the spindly form of a novel and the comparatively sleek arc of a musical still make... More >>

• The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

  published April 10, 2008

  An hour before the doors of the Avalon in Hollywood opened to let in an overflow crowd for the 29th annual L.A. Weekly... More >>

• Great Expectations

  published April 10, 2008

  Even after years of development, the stresses between the spindly form of a novel and the comparatively sleek arc of a musical still make... More >>

• Continental Divisiveness: New York and L.A. Theater

  published April 3, 2008

  In his 1998 essay “Bowing Out,”... More >>

• The Lost Plays of Tennessee Williams

  published March 27, 2008

  Jack Heller portrays the eponymous geezer, much like the aging Tennessee Williams himself, in “Mister Paradise,” the first in a trio of... More >>

• Mask

  published March 27, 2008

  If this can't draw a youth audience, nothing can. To its credit, Anna Hamilton Phelan (book), Barry Mann (music) and Cynthia Weil's (lyrics) new... More >>

• Accidental Death of an Anarchist

  published March 6, 2008

  Dario Fo’s farce concerns a maniac/master of disguises (Taras Los) who impersonates a magistrate in a Milan police station in order to help... More >>

• Sweeney Todd

  published March 6, 2008

  This is the perfect moment for Sweeney Todd. Set during “hard times,” it’s the story of a Fleet Street barber who slits the throats... More >>

• John Doyle's Sweeney Todd

  published March 20, 2008

  This is the perfect moment for Sweeney Todd. Set during “hard times,” it’s the story of a Fleet... More >>

• The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

  published March 6, 2008

  Though frayed at the edges in both the writing and the production, Stephen Adly Guirgis’ contemporary NYC trial of Judas (Robert Mollohan,... More >>

• Eye Mouth Graffiti Bodyshop & 20 Plays in 20 Minutes

  published March 6, 2008

  And the Beat goes on. The poetry in Ron Allen’s choreo-poem about the ultimate short circuit in the city’s grid (violence, erotic... More >>

• On an Average Day

  published March 6, 2008

  John Kolvenbach's 2000 play about about two brothers in a hovel crunching through the wreckage of their lives, and the memory of their father who... More >>

• Crime and Punishment

  published March 6, 2008

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky's seminal profile of a killer with a superman complex and a moral imperative to dispose of a miserly old pawn broker, who's... More >>

• Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

  published Mar 04, 2008

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• L'Effleur Des Sens

  published January 10, 2008

  means "flirting with the senses," and choreographer-director Cati Jean has MC Gregg guide us through this French-style cabaret that consists of... More >>

• 1776

  published January 10, 2008

  Events of June and July in the American Continental Congress of 1776 are laid out in Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards' 1969 musical with droll wit... More >>

• The Saint Plays

  published January 10, 2008

  Here's a futile attempt to describe a kind of beauty that's really indescribable, because the evening described is the essence of the irrational,... More >>

• City Hall's "Density Hawks" Are Changing L.A.'s DNA

  published February 28, 2008

  Soon after taking the job of director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning in 2006, Gail Goldberg made a declaration... More >>

• Cabaret

  published January 10, 2008

  Looming over Jules Aaron's production of Fred Ebb and John Kander's now-classic 1966 musical about an American writer in Berlin, as Nazis slither... More >>

• Voices From Okinawa

  published January 10, 2008

  There must be merit in John Shirota's study of an American (one-quarter Okinawan) who's teaching English in the land of his great-grandfather, but... More >>

• Frozen

  published January 10, 2008

  Not unlike an ice floe, the chill in Bryony Lavery's 2004 play creeps up on you, before working its way into your bones. In the first half-hour,... More >>

• SOME GIRL(S)

  published January 10, 2008

  Writer-director Neil LaBute's play nudges us to believe that he's re-examining gender relations through the perspectives of one solipsistic... More >>

• THE ERIKSON REPORT

  published January 10, 2008

  Playwright Adrian Bewley plays the title role of Scott Erikson in a promising new work that consists of two parallel dramas still in need of... More >>

• The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera

  published February 14, 2008

  Dust off those leather pants, pull your '80s duds out of mothballs and get ready to rock. The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly... More >>

• Hamlet

  published January 10, 2008

  Elizabeth LeCompte's much-ballyhooed Wooster Group production of Hamlet (now in a brief engagement at REDCAT) takes the premise of life's being a... More >>