Email Author Steven Leigh Morris
Awards
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2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
"The Race-Time Continuum"
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2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
Theater Reviews
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2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
"Guerillas in our Midst"
2013 Stories by Steven Leigh Morris
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FEATURED STORY
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including One Actor's Excursion into Peruvian Drugs
published Jul 18, 2013
Michael Kass' one-man show, Ceremony, about his journey to spiritual enlightenment via Peru, is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and this weekend's theater listing... More >>
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A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alcestis Show What Lurks in the Darkness
published July 18, 2013
Not since late December and its annual swath of A Christmas Carols invading the region have there been so many productions of a single... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner
published Jul 11, 2013
Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is this week's pic... More >>
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Two L.A. Plays About Creative People Who Won't Compromise Their Ideals
published July 11, 2013
By sheer coincidence, it seems, a pair of new plays being performed in different corners of the city takes a mocking yet poignant look at the... More >>
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Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show
published June 27, 2013
The publicist for the Kirk Douglas Theatre finds me in the theater's cinder-block cubicle otherwise known as the "Green Room" — only one... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Stunning Play With a Very Long Title
published Jun 20, 2013
A play within a rehearsal by Jackie Siblies Drury, about self-indulgent actors and atrocities in Africa, is our pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, including more Hollywood Fri... More >>
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Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe
published June 20, 2013
How many theater companies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón's Neva,... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Theater to See in L.A. This Week: Our Hollywood Fringe Preview
published Jun 13, 2013
It's Fringe, Fringe and more Fringe festival coverage this week in new theater reviews (see below) and this week's theater feature. There will be a bit more Fringe coverage next week, but we'll al... More >>
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Hollywood Fringe Festival 2013: Our Preview
published June 13, 2013
See also: *All... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson
published Jun 06, 2013
Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration ... More >>
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Why Two Celebrated Theaters Have to Leave Their Hollywood Homes
published June 6, 2013
Last month, at about the same time, Open Fist Theatre Company and Celebration Theatre gave notice to their respective landlords, the primary... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive
published May 30, 2013
Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week. For all... More >>
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In A Fried Octopus and Heart Song, Beauty Conquers All
published May 30, 2013
A central character in A Fried Octopus is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The diminutive French painter-printmaker-draughtsman, who devised... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War
published May 23, 2013
Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they come in.... More >>
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Solo Show At the Flash Looks at a Single Gay Bar Through the Decades
published May 23, 2013
In March 2012, Ian MacKinnon presented a gay history one-man show at Moving Arts in Silver Lake, named Gay Hist-Orgy! Parts 1 & 2. It... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama
published May 16, 2013
The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this ... More >>
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The Grapes of Wrath
published February 28, 2013
There are no weak links in Michael Michetti's staging of The Grapes of Wrath. It is a study of characters adrift, American refugees of the... More >>
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With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera
published May 16, 2013
It's taken 11 years to get director-lyricist Richard Sparks and composer Lee Holdridge's new opera, Dulce Rosa, from the germ of an... More >>
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Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story
published May 09, 2013
L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, prese... More >>
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Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New
published May 9, 2013
There's a road leading from the Actors Theatre of Louisville (Ky.) to Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group. Now onstage at CTG's Kirk Douglas... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Docudrama About Slavery
published May 02, 2013
Lovell Estell III found Chromolume Theatre's production of Do Lord Remember Me stirring, and made it this week's Pick. Neal Weaver also found a multimedia Brecht on Brecht at Atwater Village Theater... More >>
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Colorblind and I'm Not Rappaport, Two Plays Dealing With Race Relations
published May 2, 2013
Wallace Demarria bills himself as executive producer, writer, director and star of his play Colorblind, playing through the weekend at... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland
published Apr 26, 2013
Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater ... More >>
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A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
published April 25, 2013
Is it possible that two-person plays, economically expedient for their small casts, are on the rise in L.A.? That they pose a challenge to... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week
published Apr 18, 2013
Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion i... More >>
