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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2010 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Closing

  published Jan 29, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingrSam Shepard's Geography of a Horse Dreamer is among the productions being... More >>

• Wrecks

  published January 28, 2010

  The loaded situation in writer-director Neil LaBute’s “love story” allows for a kind of velvet glove to reach inside one’s... More >>

• Orpheus Descending

  published January 28, 2010

  Lou Pepe stages Tennessee Williams' study of a singer-songwriter, Val Xavier (Gale Harold) who wanders into a Southern mercantile shop, a... More >>

• bobrauschenbergamerica

  published January 28, 2010

  When Bob Rauschenberg's mother (Mari Marks) delivers her tender slide-show about the rural Texas childhood of her artist son, and none of the... More >>

• Artists in America? Huh?

  published January 28, 2010

  "Art was not a part of our lives," says Robert Rauschenberg's aproned Texan mother (Mari Marks) in Charles L. Mee's... More >>

• Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

  published Jan 27, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingGETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parti... More >>

• Stage Raw: West

  published Jan 25, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW GO WEST rPhoto by SpeedgraflexSteven Berkoff's 1983 tale of adrenaline, lust, rage, a... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Kid is Back

  published Jan 22, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW rPhoto by Ed Krieger In his much anticipated, first major s... More >>

• Animals! Camelot and Baal

  published January 21, 2010

  "Why are they doing this now?" This was a snippet of overheard conversation in the courtyard of the Pasadena Playhouse during... More >>

• Stage Raw: Trauma Dolls

  published Jan 20, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. TRAUMA DOLLS rPhoto courtesy of Highways Next Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30, at 8:30 p... More >>

• Baal

  published January 21, 2010

  Peter Mellencamp’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s early, poetical drama is about the cruelty and demise of a bacchanalian poet who... More >>

• Stage Raw: Project Wonderland

  published Jan 18, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's cover story on Pee-wee Herman; this week's Stage feature on An Oak TreeNEW REVIEW GO CIRCUS WELT rPhoto by Daniel CernyReminiscent of Kand... More >>

• When Reality Crashes Into a Tree

  published January 14, 2010

  Playwright-performer Tim Crouch has brought his play An Oak Tree to the Odyssey Theatre after some 250 performances... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

  published January 14, 2010

  The main character in Tim Burton’s first feature film, circa 1985, is an impish, asexual little man in a gray suit, white... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Future Belongs to Usr

  published Jan 13, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's cover story on Pee-wee Herman; this week's Stage feature on An Oak TreeTHEATRE OF NOTE MARATHON r Fire-eater Julia Prud'homme Photo by Ki... More >>

• An Oak Tree

  published January 14, 2010

  On the simplest storytelling level, actor-performer Tim Crouch’s play is the tale of a hypnotist falling apart at the seams, who after... More >>

• Stage Raw: An Oak Tree

  published Jan 11, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogNEW REVIEW GO AN OAK TREE rPhoto by William AdashekOn the simplest stor... More >>

• Stage Raw: Ovations on Monday

  published Jan 08, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the Frog OVATIONS ON MONDAYThe LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards Ceremony for the 2008/2009 theatre... More >>

• Frogs Have Feelings, Too, Man

  published January 7, 2010

  Stories come with morals attached, right? But if you catch The Princess and the Frog, both the Disney movie based on... More >>

• Bennett Bradley: The Chef of the Fountain Theatre

  published January 7, 2010

  Bennett Bradley, a director, producer and director of audience development for the Fountain Theatre, was found dead in his... More >>

• WHAT’S THE SECRET WORD?

  published January 7, 2010

  In his much anticipated, first major stage appearance since 1991, obnoxious-sweet man-child Pee-wee Herman (Paul Ruebens) appears at Club Nokia... More >>

• Stage Raw: Outrageous Fortune

  published Jan 06, 2010

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the Frog OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE Theatre Development Fund has just published its findings on "the life... More >>

• Stage Raw: Ben Bradley Murdered

  published Jan 03, 2010

  This week's stage features on The Best of '09 and The Best of the Decade.rPhoto courtesy of The Fountain TheatreBEN BRADLEY MURDERED (see Stage feature on Wednesday) The Fountain Theater's Director o... More >>