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

• Stage Raw: Betty Garrett Dies at 91

  published Feb 12, 2011

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!BETTY GARRETT (1919-2011) rL.A. Weekly's 2005 Queen of the Angels,... More >>

• Stage Raw: Camino Real

  published Feb 11, 2011

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS rCalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO RE... More >>

• Crack Whore Galore - Live!

  published February 10, 2011

  Created by Tonya Corneilisse, Ryan Oliver, Danny Roew, Graham Sibley and director Gates McFadden, this obscenely funy late night rock music comedy... More >>

• Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon and Crack Whore Galore — Live!

  published February 10, 2011

  We come not to bury Neil LaBute, but to praise him. This may be the only positive review of his play The Break of... More >>

• Stage Raw: Mr. Kolpert

  published Feb 08, 2011

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYNEW REVIEW GO MR. KOLPERT rPhoto by Charlie Fonville What to do when you're settled, successful and sociopat... More >>

• Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

  published Feb 03, 2011

  COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its s... More >>

• Spider-Man on Broadway; La Traviata at the Met

  published February 3, 2011

  Wham! Pow! Thwack! No, those aren't the sounds of actors falling from the rafters in the musical spectacle Spider-Man:... More >>

• Stage Raw: Shadow Anthropology

  published Feb 01, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNote: This week's print edition will contain capsule reviews for this and the prior two weeks. --SLMNEW REVIEW&... More >>

• Stage Raw: Back Yard Discoveries

  published Jan 29, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNote: Due to glitches in a new computer system, no capsule new theater r... More >>

• Stage Raw: The Trial of Hamlet

  published Jan 27, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNote: Due to a technical mishap, none of this week's capsule new reviews... More >>

• Puzzler

  published January 27, 2011

  In writer-director Padraic Duffy's new play, Niklas Keller (Mark Bramhall) now in his 70s, sits at a desk somewhere in Germany, rifling through... More >>

• Adding Machine: A Musical

  published January 27, 2011

  In Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith's adaptation of Elmer Rice's 1923 satire of accountants slaving for The Man in cubicles, a shlub named Zero... More >>

• PaDraic Duffy's Puzzler and Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith's Adding Machine: A Musical

  published January 27, 2011

  In writer-director Padraic Duffy's new play, Puzzler, which opened last week at Sacred Fools Theater, Niklas Keller... More >>

• Stage Raw: LADCC Awards and Quiz3

  published Jan 25, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLOS ANGELES DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE ANNOUNCES NOMINATIONS FOR ACHIEVEMENTS DURING 2010 The 42nd an... More >>

• Stage Raw: Room Service

  published Jan 24, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE r Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I me... More >>

• Stage Raw: LAWEES on the horizon

  published Jan 21, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAWEES ON THE HORIZON rThe 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are coming to the ... More >>

• Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

  published Jan 20, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLERrPadraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred ... More >>

• John Lithgow: Stories by Heart

  published January 20, 2011

  John Lithgow clutches a book of stories, just about the only prop he uses. It's a musty, thick old book that, if we're to believe him, has been in... More >>

• Circle Mirror Transformation

  published January 20, 2011

  The opening of Annie Baker's comedy about five ordinary people in a Vermont community center's drama class couldn't be less funny, or theatrical:... More >>

• Me, as a Penguin

  published January 20, 2011

  Yorkshire playwright Tom Wells' comedy, in its U.S. premiere, is a throwback to British "Kitchen Sink" dramas of the 1950s. This one might be... More >>

• Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation and Tom Wells' Me, as a Penguin

  published January 20, 2011

  "This is exciting ... ," a woman behind me muttered sarcastically under her breath at South Coast Repertory, during a... More >>

• Stage Raw: Big Prizes, Ovations and Stage Raw Theater Quiz

  published Jan 19, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS2011 OVATIONS AWARDS at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Jan. 17Thirty-six awards... More >>

• Stage Raw: Smudge

  published Jan 17, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on John Lithgow's Stories by Heart, and HairCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO SMUDGE The birth of a child usually is seen as a joyful event -- but what if i... More >>

• Stage Raw: somatic SENSOR

  published Jan 14, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on John Lithgow's Stories by Heart, and HairCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSrSomatic SENSOR are performances, digital and networked media, drawing... More >>

• Stage Raw: Responses to the New Year Theater Quiz!

  published Jan 12, 2011

  NEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on John Lithgow's Stories by Heart, and HairCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS are coming, cool your jets.rVince Melocchi's new play, Julia, at Paci... More >>