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

• Tanya Saracho's El Nogalar: Chekhov Set in the Mexican Drug Wars

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Though Tanya Saracho is 35 and has lived in the United States since she was 12, she still isn't a citizen, holding only a green card. Deeply grateful to the United States for the life she's lived her... More >>

• Helen Hunt in Our Town at the Broad Stage

  published January 26, 2012

  Over at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, the schoolkids of Grover's Corners in Thornton Wilder's Our Town pour off the stage, like... More >>

• Fairy Tale Theatre, 18 & Over, Ovo, Hamlet and more New Stage Reviews . . .

  published Jan 25, 2012

  This week's Pick goes to Inkwell Theatre Company at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood, and their production of Fairy Tale Theatre, 18 & Over, which Mayank Keshaviah describes as having "go-for-... More >>

• Helen Hunt in Our Town, and Return of the Stage Listings . . .

  published Jan 20, 2012

  Speaking with a disgruntled colleague at Wednesday's opening of David Cromer's much anticipated, intimate staging of Our Town at Santa Monica's Broad Stage, I told him that the production recalled the... More >>

• Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

  published January 19, 2012

  Are we insects or are we dancers? "I was always fascinated by insects since I was a child. I would go into my backyard and look under... More >>

• Kathleen Turner Plays Journalist Molly Ivins in Red Hot Patriot at the Geffen

  published January 19, 2012

  It's probably dangerous to subtitle a biographical play "The Kick-Ass Wit," as twin-sister journalist-playwrights Margaret and Allison Engel do... More >>

• O(h), Bananas!, Jackie Five-Oh! and more new reviews

  published Jan 16, 2012

  Our critics were in a upbeat mood this week, serving up a Pick of the Week to Jackie Hoffman's Jackie Five-Oh!" at the Gay and Lesbian Centerr, with recommendations for the Actor's Company's O(h), the... More >>

• Did You Do Your Homework, Snow White, Fiesta, and other new reviews . . .

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is this week's Pick of the Week. See all New Theater reviews after the jump. r Also check out this week's features on John Malkovich directing Julian Sands in readings... More >>

• John Malkovich Directs Harold Pinter Reading

  published January 12, 2012

  In a silvery-blue jacket and slacks, lithe British actor Julian Sands presented 90 minutes of readings from the poetry of and speeches by... More >>

• Leslie Jordan's Fruit Fly

  published January 12, 2012

  How often, in the pantheon of literature and drama, do you find a guy performing an homage to his mom? Far more common in the annals of pop... More >>

• 6 Oddest Moments of L.A. Theater in 2011

  published Jan 05, 2012

  From backstage mishaps to audience interruptions, theater is unpredictable, and no one knows that better than the actors, producers and others who work in theater every day. We polled the theater com... More >>

• Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre, Reviewed

  published January 5, 2012

  There's a reason that John Patrick Shanley's two-character, 75-minute "apache dance" from 1984, set in the Bronx, is one of the most-produced... More >>

• Residents Sue OverCrumbling L.A.

  published January 5, 2012

  When the Los Angeles City Council approves new condos, office towers and other forms of growth, should it know whether the city's troubled,... More >>