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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2009 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Violators Will Be Violated

  published December 3, 2009

  Casey Smith’s solo mime show (he does scream a lot, but there are almost no decipherable words) consists of 17 brief sketches accompanied by... More >>

• Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

  published December 31, 2009

  Maybe because the cost of doing theater here under the Actors’ Equity Association’s Small Professional Theatre... More >>

• Flying Under the Radar: The Best of L.A. Theater in the '00s

  published December 31, 2009

  For local theater, the millennium’s first decade has shaped up to be an era of retrenchment, determined largely by... More >>

• Stage Raw: Home for the Holidays

  published Dec 24, 2009

  This week's stage features on The Best of '09 and The Best of the Decade.Stage Raw resumes January 4. Happy holidays.... More >>

• Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head: Debbie McMahon's Grand Guignolers

  published December 24, 2009

  With prodigious research and a devoted ensemble, creator-director-performer Debbie McMahon is attempting through her company,... More >>

• Stage Raw: A Rubicon Family Christmas

  published Dec 21, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoNEW REVIEW GO A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS rThough Andy Williams and his fancy sweaters are nowhere to ... More >>

• Granny Flats on Hold

  published Dec 19, 2009

  The Planning Department for the City of Los Angeles announced yesterday that due to "budget cutbacks" it was halting its plans to craft an ordinance setting the terms of how homeowners in R-1 (single ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Wrecks Coming to the Geffen

  published Dec 19, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoWRECKSThe Geffen Playhouse announced yesterday that Ed Harris will revive his acclaimed performance i... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

  published Dec 17, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Annette Bening will star in Joanna Mu... More >>

• Tripping on the Rez: Richard Montoya’s Palestine, New Mexico at the Taper

  published December 17, 2009

  When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into “Bumfuck” — a New Mexico Indian... More >>

• Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

  published Dec 14, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO rPhoto by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Among the Purposes

  published Dec 11, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyJust a rainy-weekend anecdote, but I closed out the winter quarter at Cal State, Sa... More >>

• Accomplice: Hollywood

  published December 10, 2009

  So I get this frantic phone call on my cell from Nikki Desmond’s personal assistant. You don’t know who Nikki Desmond is? Oh, come on.... More >>

• HOLLYWOOD NOIR AND CELTIC VISIONS

  published December 10, 2009

  So I get this frantic phone call on my cell from Nikki Desmond’s personal assistant. You don’t know who Nikki... More >>

• Invasion of the Granny Flat

  published December 10, 2009

  The Los Angeles Planning Department is in what planner Gabriela Juarez calls an “information-gathering phase” for... More >>

• Stage Raw: Absinthe, Opium and Magic

  published Dec 07, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW REVIEW GO ABSINTHE, OPIUM, AND MAGIC r Photo by Mark Benning... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Masochism of L.A. Theater

  published Dec 06, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedTHE MASOCHISM OF L.A. THEATERFirst, to throw some pre-emptive perfu... More >>

• Stage Raw: The New Electric Ballroom

  published Dec 04, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW REVIEW GO THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM rThe yin and yang tug a... More >>

• When Silence Is Golden

  published December 3, 2009

  The notion at the heart of Federico Fellini’s last film, Voice of the Moon (1990), is that at night, the water in the... More >>

• Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theaterr

  published Dec 02, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark La... More >>

• Hamlet Shut Up

  published December 3, 2009

  Writer-director Jonas Oppenheim’s whimsical reimagining of Shakespeare’s play as a silent movie (music composed and performed by Josh... More >>

• Violators Will Be Violated

  published December 3, 2009

  Casey Smith’s solo mime show (he does scream a lot, but there are almost no decipherable words) consists of 17 brief sketches accompanied by... More >>

• Stage Raw: Violators Will Be Violated

  published Nov 30, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersNEW REVIEW GO VIOLATORS WILL BE VIOLATED rPhoto courtesy of Circle X... More >>

• Stage Raw: Hamlet Shut Up

  published Nov 27, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersHAMLET SHUT UP! rPhoto by Diane Meyer Jonas Oppenheim's silent versi... More >>

• Stage Raw: ZAR

  published Nov 25, 2009

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern... More >>