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

• Cirque Du Soleil's Gymnasts and Dancers on Their Work and Lives In L.A.

  published October 27, 2011

  A native of Manchester, England, gymnast Andrew Atherton is no stranger to L.A., having lived here a decade ago for about a year and a half,... More >>

• Lolpera, 9 Circles, Pulp Shakespeare and More Theater Reviews...

  published Oct 25, 2011

  LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, r Henry Murray's... More >>

• David Greenspan coming to Getty Villa

  published Oct 20, 2011

  Obie Award-winning playwright-actor David Greenspan brings two opposing views of the essences of theater to the Getty Villa -- Aristotle's Poetics and Gertrude Stein's lecture, Plays -- in a solo perf... More >>

• Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion, Terry Jastrow's Play at Edgemar Center

  published October 20, 2011

  Before last Saturday night's performance of his new play, Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion, Terry Jastrow greeted the... More >>

• Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

  published October 20, 2011

  After mockingly gyrating and rubbing her torso up against comedian Hal Sparks, the lithe and spunky left-wing radio talk-show host Stephanie... More >>

• Chekhov Unscripted, Beverly Winwood Actor's Showcase, Double Falsehood and More Theater Reviews

  published Oct 18, 2011

  rThis week, we recommend Theatre Impro's Chekhov Unscripted at the Pasadena Playhouse (see Theater Pick, along with all the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS); The Groundlings' recurring romp over dreadful ... More >>

• Busting Out!: Mammary, How I Love Ya How I Love Ya

  published Oct 13, 2011

  Also check out this week's Stage Features on John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown and Catherine Trieschmann's How The World Began; plus all the capsule NEW THEATER REVIEWS and the weekend's COMPREHENSIVE THE... More >>

• Catherine Trieschmann's How the World Began

  published October 13, 2011

  In the beginning was the word. The word was also the beginning of storytelling: Any word, or words, strung together to dramatize a memory or a... More >>

• John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown

  published October 13, 2011

  In Ghetto Klown, John Leguizamo's fifth solo performance about himself, you have to ask how much an extremely nimble and gifted... More >>

• Reviews of Way to Heaven, Waiting for Lefty, The Artificial Jungle, and more . . .

  published Oct 11, 2011

  See all this week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS (after the jump), including recommendations for I Love Lucy, Live on Stage at the Greenway Court Theatre; rCharles Ludlum's The Artificial Jungle, at the Lounge... More >>

• Busting Out: More Australian Anatomy

  published Oct 06, 2011

  Aussies brought us Puppetry of the Penis, which twisted male genitalia into an origami comedy. Now comes Busting Out, also born in Australia, which has been seen by an audience of more than 250,000 in... More >>

• Ren Casey's Bayside High School Musical

  published October 6, 2011

  Imitation is not only the highest form of flattery, it's also another measure of our theater's shrinking influence on the culture at... More >>

• Reviews of The Leopard and Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant, and more . . .

  published Oct 04, 2011

  John Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Victory Theatre Center -- one of two ne... More >>

• Falsettos, Iris, Love Sick, and Other Theater Reviews

  published Sep 29, 2011

  In this week's paper, our critics are recommending Edward Albee's Seascape, at Theatre West; William Finn's Falsettos at the Third Street Theater; Cirque du Soleil's Iris, at the Kodak, and Kristina P... More >>

• Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance

  published September 29, 2011

  The program to Shane Sakhrani's new comedy, A Widow of No Importance, at East West Players in Little Tokyo, cites a warning so serious... More >>

• Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior

  published September 22, 2011

  Theresa Rebeck is busy these days. Her new play, Poor Behavior, just received its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, and two more... More >>

• Reviews of A Widow of No Importance; The Vault: Unlocked; The Stories of Isaac Leib Peretz; and more . . .

  published Sep 20, 2011

  "The gentrification of downtown Los Angeles is a sinister metamorphosis engineered by spoiled hipsters and well-heeled land grabbers in this whodunit parody by the Vault Theatre Ensemble," writes Amy ... More >>

• Robert Picardo, Katrina Lenk and Bryce Ryness in Reprise's Cabaret

  published Sep 16, 2011

  Reprise Theatre Company's production of Cabaret opened on Wednesday at UCLA. Check back on Tuesday for the review, along with all productions seen over the weekend.Check out this week's STAGE FEATURE ... More >>

• SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa

  published September 15, 2011

  In the Getty Villa's posh amphitheater, against a palatial backdrop on an otherwise expansive stage, the god of the seas, Poseidon (Brent... More >>

• The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a Play About Professional Wrestling (That's Not a Typo), and Others, Reviewed

  published Sep 13, 2011

  rSITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature. .  Also check out this week... More >>

• Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

  published Sep 08, 2011

  Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all ot... More >>

• Porters of Hellgate's The Merchant of Venice

  published September 8, 2011

  One might expect anti-Semitic graffiti in, say, the West Bank, or Eastern Europe, where the history of pogroms is still in the air. But last... More >>

• For the Record: The Coen Bros.: a Cabaret Show About Big Lebowski Filmmakers, and Other Reviews

  published Sep 06, 2011

  Anti-Semitic graffiti found on a market wall in central Houston last month is just one symptom of why The Merchant of Venice belongs on our shores. The Porters of Hellgate have their version running a... More >>

• Ovation Awards to be announced; SCR reaches out to L.A. theater companies

  published Aug 31, 2011

  Check out this week's Stage feature on Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers, and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust,. Also -- the current NEW THEATER REVIEWS, and this weekend's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (... More >>

• Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust

  published September 1, 2011

  Click here for theater reviews on Steven Leigh Morris' Stage Raw blog.... More >>