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

• When Cute Isn't Pretty: "Cute With Chris," the Web Show for Misfit Teenage Girls and Women in Their 30s Who Like to Knit

  published January 22, 2009

  The first thing you should know about Chris Leavins is that he plays serial killers on Canadian TV shows. That’s... More >>

• Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

  published Jan 19, 2009

  Light up the Sky is this week's Pick of the Week. Light up the Sky Photo by Maia Rosenfeld THEATER PICK Moss Hart's sharp, hard-boiled 1946 farce, Light up the Sky, is the quintessential backs... More >>

• Stage Raw: L.A. Stage Alliance Approaches L.A. Weekly

  published Jan 16, 2009

  L.A. Stage Alliance Approaches L.A. Weekly over job cut News of L.A. Weekly's elimination of its Theatre Editor staff position, which I held until Wednesday -- as well as that of film critic Ella ... More >>

• Hangin' Out: That Naked Musical

  published January 15, 2009

  Conceiver-creator Robert Schrock is trying to summon lightning to strike twice on much the same concept — stark-naked performers gamely... More >>

• La Ronde

  published January 15, 2009

  Round and round we go: Arthur Schnitzler's roundelay of pass-the-torch love affairs involves a Prostitute, a Soldier, a Parlor Maid, a Young... More >>

• You, Nero

  published January 15, 2009

  Imagine a young Paul Lynde in a toga and you might have some sense of Danny Scheie's swishy portrayal of the eponymous, bloodsucking Roman emperor... More >>

• Stage Raw: Secretary of the Arts

  published Jan 14, 2009

  Secretary of the Arts I've seen the following floating around the blogosphere for a little over a week. It was forwarded to me courtesy of the Victory Theatre Center. "Quincy Jones has started a... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

  published Jan 12, 2009

  The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the eliminat... More >>

• Stage Raw: Goodbye Hello, A Memo to the Theater Community

  published Jan 09, 2009

  Goodbye Hello, A Memo to the L.A. Theater Community "I say high, you say low "You say why, and I say I don't know "Oh, no "You say goodbye and I say hello . . ." --The Beatles In the program of t... More >>

• Theater Reviews: The Rainmaker and Little Women

  published January 8, 2009

  Click here for comprehensive theater listings.LITTLE... More >>

• Puppet Up! Uncensored: The Monthly TV-Stage Hybrid From Brian Henson

  published January 8, 2009

  There’s a cliché that puppeteers have a God complex — something about the need to stand above, or behind,... More >>

• Stage Raw: Things That Matter, Like Theater Awards!

  published Jan 07, 2009

   THINGS THAT MATTER Louis Prima and Keely Smith circa 1958   The Gaza Strip is on fire; in the middle of a new year's freeze, Russia has cut off heating gas to Ukraine; the global economy... More >>

• Stage Raw: Apollo Rising

  published Jan 05, 2009

  APOLLO RISING      It's a vision thing. From a workshop production of Nancy Keystone's Apollo. Photo by Efram Delgadillo, Jr. L.A.'s loss is Portland's gain. Those with any memory... More >>

• Stage Raw: Gearing Up

  published Jan 02, 2009

      L.A.'s spring theater season starts snapping from the weekend of January 9, with some trepidation over what the effects of the economic crisis will be on our arts scene. There's been pl... More >>

• Bringing Frank Zappa's Garage to Life

  published January 1, 2009

  In a phone call this week, Martha Demson, artistic director of Open Fist Theatre Company, quoted an e-mail from her mother,... More >>