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

• The Seagull and El Nogalar Show Chekhov Still Inspires L.A. Theater

  published March 15, 2012

  The Russian master playwright, Anton Chekhov, who wrote short stories and plays around the turn of the last century, seems to have a particular... More >>

• The Spidey Project, A Low-Rent Musical Parody of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and More New Reviews

  published Mar 14, 2012

  Celebration Theatre's intimate-theater rendition of the musical, The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel, r is this week's Pick of the Week. Warm reactions also for a revival of Patrick Marber... More >>

• Pulp Shakespeare

  published January 12, 2012

  Director Jordan Monsell argues that the quality of the wit combined with the lurking and then explosive violence in Quentin Tarantino's 1994... More >>

• Dustin Lance Black's Play 8, Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt

  published March 8, 2012

  On Saturday night, there were approximately seven men in the audience of some 1,300 at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theatre who weren't wearing... More >>

• Antaeus Company Double Dips The Seagull, and More New Theater Reviews

  published Mar 07, 2012

  Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.r Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews, or after the jump. Also, check this week'... More >>

• Pacific Resident Theatre, Succeeding Where Reprise Failed

  published March 1, 2012

  The news last week that Reprise Theatre Company is suspending operations brought into stark focus the economics of a midsize theater attempting... More >>

• Gay Hist-Orgy! Part 1 & 2, by Ian MacKinnon

  published March 1, 2012

  Ian MacKinnon is a pleasant, bearded guy in his mid-30s, whose relentlessly vivacious, salacious one-man lecture/carny act, Ian MacKinnon's... More >>

• Figure 8, Boom, The Treatment and More New Reviews ...

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Phinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. rOur critics were in good spirits this week, with good notices for Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's rel... More >>

• The Weekend's Listings for Stage, Dance and Comedy

  published Feb 24, 2012

  Tensions within a classical musical quartet erupt in Dissonance, rDamian Lanigan's play running at Burbank's Falcon Theatre, and slated to be reviewed over the weekend. For the weekend's New Theater R... More >>

• The Jacksonian With Ed Harris and Bill Pullman, at Geffen Playhouse

  published February 23, 2012

  In dramas, as in life, perspective is the key to sustaining mental equilibrium when dealing with anguish. In the theater, what exactly does it... More >>

• Alcestis Project by Critical Mass at the Getty Villa

  published February 23, 2012

  "There was no script," explains director-playwright Nancy Keystone, when she and her company, Critical Mass Performance Group, showed up at the... More >>

• Candida, and Other New Theater Reviews . . .

  published Feb 22, 2012

  Chrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. r Our critics also liked On Holy Ground with Salome Jens at the MET, in Hollywood. See here for all... More >>

• The Weekend's Stage Listings; Theater Awards Updates

  published Feb 17, 2012

  Thanks for the comments on prior blog. Two actors are now sharing one nomination (Leading Male Performance, Camino Real, Theater @ Boston Court/CalArts School of Theater) in the 33rd annual L.A. Weekl... More >>

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  L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Nominations

  published Feb 16, 2012

  On April 2, L.A. Weekly will honor the best work on our small stages from 2011 at the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards. Lauren Ludwig directs music/sketch comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio, hosts of... More >>

• Sarah's War, Other New Reviews, and L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Info

  published Feb 15, 2012

  The nominees for the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards can be found here. r Lauren Ludwig directs Lost Moon Radio, host of the bash, with an ancient Greek theme. (Wear your toga!) It takes place ... More >>

• L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominations Coming Next Week; See Below for Stage Listings

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Check back early next week for the weekend's New Theater reviews. Also, stay tuned for next week's announcement of the 2011 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards nominees. rStage Listings for the remainder of th... More >>

• William Shatner Interview Outtakes: Star Trek Star on His Solo Show, Horses and Starbucks

  published Feb 10, 2012

  William Shatner, as you can imagine, has a lot to say. Now 80, the Star Trek legend opens his one-man show, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, on Broadway Feb. 16, before launching the national to... More >>

• Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, a Play About the Kennedy Assassination

  published February 9, 2012

  Film footage of Jacqueline Kennedy cradling the head of husband John F. Kennedy in an open limousine in Dallas after he'd been felled by rifle... More >>

• William Shatner on His New Solo Show, on Broadway and at the Pantages

  published February 9, 2012

  At the top of the stairs leading up to the Hollywood Dance Center on Highland Avenue, the first sight that comes into view is mirrors lining... More >>

• Short Eyes, King of the Desert, The Lonesome West, and more New Stage Reviews . . .

  published Feb 08, 2012

  Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.r Good notices also for Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatre Group; Rene Rivera's King of... More >>

• Clybourne Park's Broadway Plans Derailed (See Update), Plus This Weekend's Stage Listings

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Jaws have been dropping since the New York Post broke the story yesterday r that producer Scott Rudin was walking away from plans to produce Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Clybourne Park,... More >>

• Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTG

  published February 2, 2012

  Karl Linder is the representative of the neighbors association "welcoming committee" over in Clybourne Park — an all-white suburb in... More >>

• Hollywood Fringe Fest Applications Open Today; Dreams of the Washer King, and More New Reviews

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Registration is now open for the Third Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival, a noncurated open-invitation performance festival situated in Hollywood, and slated for mid-June. For more info, go to Hollywoo... More >>

• City Garage Call for Actors

  published Jan 26, 2012

  City Garage, the Santa Monica-based experimental theater troupe now situated in Bergamot Station, is seeking ambitious and dynamic actors for an upcoming project -- a new play Charles Mee has written ... More >>

• 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 >>