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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2012 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris

• Nothing to Hide

  published December 20, 2012

  A telling admission in Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães' magic show Nothing to Hide is that shows such as this should be... More >>

• Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReinDOORS

  published December 20, 2012

  This spoof of the Burl Ives-narrated, animated holiday classic is in clown troupe Troubadour Theater Company's solid, witty, raunchy and... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including A Snow White Christmas at Pasadena Playhouse

  published Dec 27, 2012

  The holidays are a lean time for live theater productions. This week, we have three New Theater Reviews. You can find them and region-wide theater listings below. This week's Stage Feature looks ah... More >>

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  L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

  published December 27, 2012

  Looking across the border crossing of the holiday season, there's cause for curiosity and a feeling of being encouraged by the possibilities of... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including In the Heights in Boyle Heights

  published Dec 20, 2012

  A strong production of In the Heights at Boyle Heights' Casa 0101 is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, see below.It's a dirty job but everybody has to do it: This w... More >>

• The Magic Bullet Theory

  published November 8, 2012

  Terry Tocantins and Alex Zola's The Magic Bullet Theory is the second play to be produced locally this year focusing on the 1963 JFK... More >>

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  10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012

  published December 20, 2012

  How convenient it would be in describing the year's best stage events to roll in with an agenda: that local productions were better than... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Lottery Win Creating Chaos in 86'd

  published Dec 13, 2012

  In this week's Pick of the Week, critic Lovell Estell says that Jon Polito and Darryl Armbruster's dark comedy 86'd, about "a vortex of devious dealings" at a diner, poses the question of what an... More >>

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  Jon Robin Baitz's Play Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, Reviewed

  published December 13, 2012

  Jon Robin Baitz can write a play with erudition and wisdom. He's been demonstrating that since 1987, when his remarkable The Film... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jewish Christmas Play

  published Dec 06, 2012

  We give nods this week for Donald Margulies' Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen, Anything Goes at the Ahmanson, Rise playing mid-week at Elephant Stage, A Mulholland Christmas Carol back at Theatre ... More >>

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  Eight-Hour Gatz and Magic Act Nothing to Hide, Reviewed

  published December 6, 2012

  A telling admission in Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães' magic show Nothing to Hide, at the Geffen Playhouse through Jan.... More >>

• Hamlet

  published November 22, 2012

  Shakespeare's Globe Theatre arrived in Santa Monica from the United Kingdom last week, at the tail end of a U.S. tour. Its production of... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

  published Nov 29, 2012

  A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater re... More >>

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  The Coarse Acting Show and Dirty Filthy Love Story, Reviewed

  published November 29, 2012

  'Tis is the season when many of our theaters go into a state of suspended animation for the express purpose of making it through the holidays.... More >>

• Red Barn

  published November 15, 2012

  In the program notes to the new musical Red Barn, which he co-authored with his wife, the show's director, Melissa Chalsma,... More >>

• Untitled Warhol Project

  published November 15, 2012

  The Odyssey Theatre's Student Outreach Program (Odds) and the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy have teamed up with Theatre Movement... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, From Bob Baker's Marionettes to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Doing Hamlet

  published Nov 21, 2012

  Our critic Deborah Klugman was smitten with the craftsmanship of Bob Baker's marionettes in the kids theater's seasonal Nutcracker show. Paul Birchall gave compliments to Nora, a new play based on Ibs... More >>

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  Hamlet at the Broad Stage and The Morini Strad at Colony Theatre, Reviewed

  published November 22, 2012

  Shakespeare's Globe Theatre arrived in Santa Monica from the United Kingdom last week, at the tail end of a U.S. tour. Its production of... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Local Production of Avenue Q

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Latino Theatre Company's Anna Lucasta is this week's Pick of the Week. It was first written about a Polish family but deemed too sexual for white folk, so Philip Yordan's play was re-jiggered for a bl... More >>

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  Untitled Warhol Project at the Odyssey and Red Barn at Atwater Crossing, Reviewed

  published November 15, 2012

  In the program notes to the new musical Red Barn, which he co-authored with his wife, the show's director, Melissa Chalsma,... More >>

• Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

  published Nov 13, 2012

  Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's ... More >>

• November

  published October 11, 2012

  David Mamet's Oval Office farce November centers on an imploding U.S. president, Charles Smith (Ed Begley Jr.), running for a second term,... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Drug Wars Called Empanada for a Dream

  published Nov 08, 2012

  The tenacious City Garage -- sticking around for a while at Bergamot Station after its lease in its space behind the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica wasn't renewed -- revives its production of ... More >>

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  Behaving Badly: Bad Apples, Empanada for a Dream and Slice, Reviewed

  published November 8, 2012

  It's no secret: We, as a species, are more vicious than the most violent of dogs. What remains perplexing is that in the millennia since Homer,... More >>

• Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Rogue Machine's Latest, Set in a Big-Box Store

  published Nov 01, 2012

  Samuel D. Hunter's new play at Rogue Machine, A Bright New Boise, takes a probing look at religious zealotry and is this week's Pick of the Week. For all our new theater reviews, see below. The works ... More >>