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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2011 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Fela! at the Ahmanson Reviewed

  published December 29, 2011

  The band and the actors are already warming up as the audience trickles into the Ahmanson Theatre for Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T.... More >>

• Fred Willard in A Cinderella Christmas, and Eclectic Company's Askance

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Kris Lythgoe's A Cinderella Christmas at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre is this week's Pick.rFor all New Theater Reviews, go to the jump. Also, check out this coming week's stage feature on three... More >>

• Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

  published December 22, 2011

  This past June witnessed the week that was, with the nationwide theater organization Theatre Communications Group celebrating its 50th... More >>

• Theater Anecdotes, Anyoner Also, New reviews of Stations, Santasia and Camp Sunday

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Boom Kat Dance Theatre's production of Stations at Santa Monica's Miles Memorial Playhouse landed this week's stage Pick; ralso recommended are the Whitefire Theatre's Santasia in Sherman Oaks, and th... More >>

• Seminar, Maple and Vine and The Mountaintop in New York

  published December 15, 2011

  If you visit New York this winter, you'll find on Broadway a playwright oft-produced in L.A. (Theresa Rebeck) and a pair of Hollywood stars... More >>

• Sacred Fools' The Christmas Present: Who Spends Christmas With a Prostitute?

  published December 15, 2011

  There's an imposing bed at the center of the stage. Colin (Troy Blendell) has such a typically English, genial disposition, you have to wonder... More >>

• Atomic Holiday Free Fall, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, A Christmas Westside Story and more holiday season reviews . . .

  published Dec 13, 2011

  Troubadour Theatre Company snags this week's Pick of the Week, .r with their yuletide mashup, A Christmas Westside Story at Burbank's Falcon Theatre. Nods also for Atomic Holiday Freefall at the Acto... More >>

• Ben Bradley Murderer Convicted: Reactions From the Theater Community

  published December 8, 2011

  One of the eeriest events in recent local theater history occurred in 2010, when the Fountain Theatre’s beloved director-producer, Ben... More >>

• Sam Holcroft's Cockroach: Monkey Wrench Collective, O.C. Theater Company, Makes L.A. Debut

  published December 8, 2011

  So a British high school student, afraid to go home after school, afraid of her stepdad — that's as much as she says — asks a... More >>

• Blood Fruit, Christmastime is Queer, The Many Murders of Kristopher K. Kringle, and more new reviews. . .

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Yep, it's time for all the holiday play reviews.r Check 'em all the capsule New Theater Reviews after the jump; also, this week's stage features on reactions from the Fountain Theatre family to the c... More >>

• Steven Sondheim's Look, I Made a Hat

  published December 1, 2011

  In the preface to the second volume of his anthology of lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) With Attendant Comments,... More >>

• Charlayne Woodard’s The Night Watcher at Kirk Douglas Theatre

  published December 1, 2011

  Perhaps the best word to describe Charlayne Woodard as a performer is silken. When she crosses the stage, it's as though her body is... More >>

• Hosea Nova, Who's Your Daddyr and More New Theater Reviews

  published Nov 30, 2011

  High praise this week for "Robert Reimer's nutcase of a play," Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man (this week's Pick of the Week) at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, and for writer-perfo... More >>

• Monkey Adored

  published September 22, 2011

  I'm man's best friend. It's a thankless job," says pooch Brown Spot (Justin Okin) near the opening of Henry Murray's smart and sobering fantasia,... More >>

• Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

  published Nov 23, 2011

  Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. r Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo perfor... More >>

• A Noise Within's New Theater

  published November 24, 2011

  I felt some mixed feelings watching Twelfth Night in A Noise Within's new, 283-seat Pasadena digs. The first reaction is the now... More >>

• Pat Kinevane's Forgotten at Odyssey Theatre

  published November 24, 2011

  In his solo performance Forgotten, Pat Kinevane enters a stark stage, dressed in a kimono. During the hypertheatrical arrival, the... More >>

• Pulp Shakespeare

  published September 22, 2011

  Director Jordan Monsell argues that the quality of the wit combined with the lurking and then explosive violence in Quentin Tarantino's 1994... More >>

• Gil Cates: He Tamed the Showbiz Beasts

  published November 17, 2011

  Actors, colleagues and critics have weighed in on the Oct. 31 death of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse's producing director, from an apparent... More >>

• Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and Other New Reviews

  published Nov 16, 2011

   Alan Alda's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review  rof Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Undergroun... More >>

• Morris Panych's Vigil

  published November 10, 2011

  An embittered and aging tranny named Kemp (Marco Barricelli) comes to visit an old aunt (Olympia Dukakis) on the basis of a letter she sent him... More >>

• Brett Neveu's 4 Murders

  published November 10, 2011

  God is dead. He died in the 1950s during the Theater of the Absurd movement, when European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco,... More >>

• Jerker, Have You Seen Alicer, The Romance of Magno Rubio, and more new stage reviews . . .

  published Nov 08, 2011

  Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein rJacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alicer at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics al... More >>

• Ovation Awards

  published November 3, 2011

  "I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it." —Mary-Louise Parker After the announcement of this year's... More >>

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  Gil Cates Dies at 77

  published Nov 02, 2011

  GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's founder and producing director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. A Noise Within opened i... More >>