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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Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo
published April 18, 2013
If you need an illustration of how much the early writing of Harold Pinter influenced the early writing of David Mamet, you need only check out... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity
published Apr 11, 2013
Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish H... More >>
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A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office
published April 11, 2013
Writer-director Randy Johnson's musical bio-concert One Night With Janis is breaking records for daily sales, reports the Pasadena... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Marilyn Monroe Kissing a Girl and Liking It
published Apr 04, 2013
Marilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below for all th... More >>
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COVER STORY
Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?
published April 4, 2013
Toward the end of the new, futuristic play The Nether, a female detective faces the man she's been investigating — a man who has... More >>
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Alexander Woo, a Playwright Who Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the 'Idiot Box'
published April 4, 2013
Achieving an entirely plausible yet unorthodox version of "success" — at least for a playwright — Alexander Woo has settled... More >>
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What Is Art Good For? Two Plays Answer the Question
published April 4, 2013
With the arts always the first programs to be budget-cut in school curricula, and with the cries of woe on editorial pages that we're not... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland
published Mar 28, 2013
Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Rade... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Psycho-Sexual Boxing Match
published Mar 21, 2013
Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Theatre Compa... More >>
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Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty
published March 21, 2013
At the age of 80, Donald Freed is one of the oldest living American playwrights. A consequence of his age and his prolific output, Freed now... More >>
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Solemn Mockeries
published March 7, 2013
Richard Creese's new play about the Englishman William-Henry Ireland, having its world premiere in a production by Independent Shakespeare... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unusual Look at Motherhood
published Mar 14, 2013
This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Lost Studio) as well as a quartet of one-acts at... More >>
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Nina Raine's Play Tribes Depicts a Family That Talks a Lot But Doesn't Listen
published March 14, 2013
Nina Raine's lovely play Tribes, now at the Mark Taper Forum, is likely to be done all over the place, having just the right blend of... More >>
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Divorce Party: The Musical Tries to Put a Positive Spin on Its Subject Matter
published March 7, 2013
At the opening of Mark Schwartz's Divorce Party: The Musical, a frumpy housefrau named Linda (Janna Cardia) sits amidst small... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Prancing Horses on a Stage the Size of a Football Field
published Mar 07, 2013
The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry National Cen... More >>
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Solemn Mockeries, a Solo Show About the Man Who Tried to Forge a Shakespeare Play
published March 7, 2013
The Englishman William-Henry Ireland lived from around 1775 — he appears to have lied about his birth year — to 1835. Were he able,... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Gripping Drama About the Reverberations of a Death
published Feb 28, 2013
Collectively, our theater critics were in a very good mood this week, offering recommendations to the majority of shows reviewed: Complete at the Matrix, Echo Theatre Company's A Family Thing, Sexsti... More >>
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O'Neill and Steinbeck Onstage
published February 28, 2013
The debate in politics over pending "sequestration" goes back and forth like a ping pong ball — from the view that hatchetlike budget... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Two Naked People in a Cage
published Feb 21, 2013
Charles A. Duncombe's new play Caged at Santa Monica's City Garage is a rumination on the oddities of our species via the exhibition of two naked souls in a museum cage. It's also this week's Pick of ... More >>
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L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Nominees
published Feb 20, 2013
See past recipients: *2012 *2011 (winners) *2011 (nominees) *2010 (winners) *2010 (nominees) *2009 (winners) *2009 (nominees) *2008 (winners) *2008 (nominees) See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews ... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope
published Feb 14, 2013
Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirro... More >>
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Two L.A. Musicals Poke Fun at Religious Groups While Celebrating Them at the Same Time
published February 14, 2013
Two new musicals that opened across town from each other last weekend provide an answer — a rebuff, really — to the idea that... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas
published Feb 07, 2013
Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang... More >>
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The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue
published February 7, 2013
There are a number of reasons why it's hard to get all warm and fuzzy about porn as a poster child for the First Amendment. Maybe it has... More >>
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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Play About the Peanuts Characters All Grown Up
published Feb 01, 2013
Absolutely Filthy, Brendan Hunt's riff on the Peanuts cartoon series, is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the latest New Reviews, and complete theater listings, see below. Two head-tripping p... More >>
