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

• Radar L.A. Returns Next Year, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

  published Aug 01, 2012

  Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Ga... More >>

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  The Government Inspector at Boston Court, and REDCAT's New Original Works Festival

  published August 2, 2012

  There's a quotation by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in an anthology called Dumbest Things Ever Said: "There are known... More >>

• Going Green the Wong Way

  published June 21, 2012

  Writer-performer-comic Kristina Wong riffs on her beloved green movement in her solo satire Going Green the Wong Way, extended at Bootleg... More >>

• Jennifer Aniston Stole My Life

  published June 28, 2012

  At first it's annoying but eventually it seems fitting that Jon Courie's 90-minute play should so resemble a sitcom. Set in a dreary North... More >>

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  Sex Farce Meets Diplomacy in Mutually Assured Destruction; Solo Show Mental Creatures Explores Artistic Ambition

  published July 26, 2012

  It's very old news that theater derives from traditions of storytelling. More recent news, but still old enough, is that the insights in the... More >>

• Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

  published Jul 25, 2012

  REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and ... More >>

• Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain and Beautiful Lighting Can't Save The Exorcist, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

  published Jul 18, 2012

  The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab... More >>

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  Macbeth Two Ways, in North Hollywood

  published July 19, 2012

  Summer is for Shakespeare, usually in the park, but this season, Macbeth is blooming everywhere like Scottish thistles. At New York's... More >>

• A Duck Flew Into Our Highland Park Backyard...and Wouldn't Leave

  published Jul 12, 2012

  In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.The other day, a duck flew into our backyard, in one of the canyons of Highland Park. A... More >>

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  The New Electric Ballroom, House and Very Still and Hard to See

  published July 12, 2012

  Not meaning to beat a dead horse, but seeing a triple-header of local stage productions on Saturday brought into stark counterpoint my respect... More >>

• Rafael Goldstein's 'Jangled, Dangerous Hamlet,' the Return of Frank's Wild Lunch, and All the Latest New Theater Reviews

  published Jul 11, 2012

  After a too-long hiatus, Kyle T. Wilson has resuscitated his thoughtful blog on arts, culture and politics, Frank's Wild Lunch,  with a response to L.A. Times critic Charles McNulty's Critic's No... More >>

• Earthbound Is a Rare Sci-Fi Musical That Actually Works, Says Bill Raden; Plus All the Holiday Weekend's New Theater Reviews

  published Jul 04, 2012

  Critic Bill Raden was struck by both a new sci-fi musical Earthbound, this week's Pick of the Week, as well as by the intensity of a production of Stephen Belber's Tape, set in a motel room for audien... More >>

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  Kristina Wong's Solo Satire Going Green the Wong Way

  published July 5, 2012

  Writer-performer-comic Kristina Wong riffs on her beloved green movement in her solo satire Going Green the Wong Way, extended at... More >>

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  War Horse at the Ahmanson Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

  published July 5, 2012

  The National Theatre of Great Britain has brought an infantry of more than three dozen performers to the Ahmanson Theatre, in the form of its... More >>

• The Fool & the Red Queen

  published May 24, 2012

  “It’s a protest. It’s a love story.” So begins the explanation by experimental filmmakers Chauncey and Rondell (Jack... More >>

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  The Black Glass at the Hollywood Fringe and Heartbreak House at Theatricum Botanicum

  published June 28, 2012

  Playwright-director Guy Zimmerman dedicated his new 60-minute play in two scenes, The Black Glass, to the protesters of Occupy Wall... More >>

• A String of GOs in This Week's New Theater Reviews, Plus a Best of Fringe Award

  published Jun 27, 2012

  The third annual Hollywood Fringe festival is now history, and this L.A. Weekly best of award goes to Eric Davis' demonic Red Bastard. Also check out this week's Stage Feature on Theatricum Botanicum... More >>

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  Hollywood Fringe's Beautiful Free-for-All Hits Year Three

  published June 21, 2012

  Wrapping up its third season on Sunday, the 2012 Hollywood Fringe — a three-week binge of affordable comedy, theater, music and film,... More >>

• Fluffy Bunnies, Santa Ynez Wine Country in Sideways: The Play and More New Theater Reviews

  published Jun 13, 2012

  Rex Pickett's stage adaptation Sideways: The Play (over at Ruskin Theatre Group), from his own novel about life in the Santa Inez Valley wine country, gets this week's Pick. Also admired is Matt Chafe... More >>

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  Los Otros at the Mark Taper Forum

  published June 14, 2012

  There was a melody, or a fragment of one, bouncing in my head after watching the world-premiere musical Los Otros, which opened June... More >>

• 2012 Hollywood Fringe Reviews

  published Jun 13, 2012

  Check out our growing docket of 2012 Hollywood Fringe theater reviews after the jump, which are scheduled for publication June 21. Also, check out this week's Stage Feature, a wrap-up of the festi... More >>

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  Hands on a Hardbody, With Music by Trey Anastasio of Phish and Amanda Green

  published June 7, 2012

  In Texas, they say, the truck is the center of life. Not only a vehicle to haul lumber and supplies and take your date to the Dairy Queen, it's... More >>

• An Astral Dick, Some Hair and a Compleat Female Stage Beauty in This Week's New Theater Reviews.

  published Jun 06, 2012

  A three-person series of sketches about Laotians in America, Refugee Nation is this week's Pick. Click here for all New Stage Reviews, or go to the jump. Also, check out this week's stage feature&... More >>

• Holding On - Letting Go

  published May 10, 2012

  Bryan Harnetiaux's new play focuses on family dynamics as the 51-year-old husband, Bobby (Barry Wiggins), in a childless marriage, enters a... More >>

• Years of a Clown: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools

  published May 31, 2012

  There's clearly something irresistible to playwrights about the image of clowns falling to pieces. On local stages, one embodiment of that is... More >>