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Steven Leigh Morris

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Sherlock's Last Case

    No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

  • News

    July 12, 2012

    Comments: Warring Over War Horse

    No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    L.A. Weekly Critic Steven Leigh Morris Gets Two-Book Deal to Write About L.A. Theater History, Chickens

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 25, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 18, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 4, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 28, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 14, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 7, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 30, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 23, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 16, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 9, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 2, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 26, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 19, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 12, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 5, 2011

    Theater Reviews

    ​The Weekly's critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, has landed a two-book publishing deal with New Hampshire-based Smith and Kraus Publishers. The first book -- working title Building Snowmen in the Desert -- is a three-year research project for a comprehensive history of Los Angeles theater. Thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

    COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 27, 2010

    Theater Reviews: More Lies About Jerzy, Second, Supernova

    Also, U.S.S. Pinafore, Den of Thieves, Man Verses Moon and more

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Stage Raw: Supernova

    ALL THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS NEW REVIEW GO SUPERNOVA ​Photo by Joel Daavid Mabel (Bonnie Hunt), a naive Des Moines housewife, calls a graveyard shift salesman named Joe in Los Angeles (Timothy McNeil), to order an expensive watch for her son's 18th birthday. She can't yet go through with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

  • News

    January 21, 2010

    PEE-WEE'S BIG ANNOYANCE

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2010

    Stage Raw: An Oak Tree

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSThis week's stage features on Ben Bradley's Murder and The Princess and the FrogNEW REVIEW GO AN OAK TREE ​Photo by William AdashekOn the simplest story-telling level, actor-performer Tim Crouch's play is the tale of a hypnotist, falling apart at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Stage Raw: Violators Will Be Violated

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersNEW REVIEW GO VIOLATORS WILL BE VIOLATED ​Photo courtesy of Circle X Theatre CompanyCasey Smith's solo mime-show (he does scream a lot, but there are almost no deciph ... More >>

  • Stage

    November 26, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Arias With a Twist, La Ronde de Lunch, Love in Bloom

    Also, Molly Sweeney, Equivocation, Love’s Labour’s Lost and more

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

  • News

    June 18, 2009

    "Sunset Junction": One-Sided?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    Critic Praised: L.A. Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris & Others to Be Honored Tonight

    Tonight Playwrights Arena, the critically acclaimed theater company, will acclaim critic Steven Leigh Morris of the L.A. Weekly, along with actress Fran Bennett and the Lodestone Theater Ensemble. The event, "Hot Night in the City," will feature plenty of live singing of stage songs written by su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2009

    Radio Today: L.A. Weekly on Theater

    L.A. theatergoers can get an earful today as the L.A. Weekly's critic-at-large Steven Leigh Morris joins Back Stage's Dany Margolies and Frontier's Wenzel Jones to offer reviews and stage news. Join them on Patt Morrison's show on KPCC, from 2-3 p.m.

  • Stage

    March 12, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Before I Forget, Lie With Me, Six Years

    Also, Stitching, The Loft Variety Hour, and more

  • Stage

    February 12, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Candida, Poor, Poor Lear, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Also, Surviving Sex, The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, and more

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    L.A. Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris on the Air

    The L.A. Weekly's theater critic-at-large, Steven Leigh Morris, will be making the radio rounds today and tomorrow. Friday afternoon listeners can hear him hold forth on L.A. theater at 2:30 p.m., on Patt Morrison's eponymous KPCC show. (89.3 FM)Steven Leigh Morris: Hear him on radioSaturday, Morri ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 30, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Lovelace: A Rock Opera, U.S. Drag, How Cissy Grew

    Also, Torn Between Two Bitches, Love's Old Sweet Song and more

  • Stage

    October 9, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

    Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

  • Stage

    August 28, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

    Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  • Stage

    May 29, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Lady, A Chorus Line, I Gelosi

    Also, The Legendary Times of Bulgakov, and more

  • Stage

    February 21, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Sexy Laundry, Stupid Kids

    Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2007

    April 6, 2007

    To Play or Not to Play: Tales of glory and folly on local stages by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS and STEVEN MIKULAN

  • Stage

    February 22, 2007

    Weekend Theater Reviews

    Including Altar Boyz, Bent, Kimberly Akimbo and more

  • News

    December 21, 2006

    Theater and Its Discontents

    Including Altar Boyz, Bent, Kimberly Akimbo and more

  • Stage

    August 17, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

  • Stage

    June 15, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

  • LA Life

    April 6, 2006

    How Bizarro

    Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

  • Stage

    March 23, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    For the week of March 24 - 30

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Trucker Talk

    For the week of March 24 - 30

  • News

    August 30, 2001

    Letters

    For the week of March 24 - 30

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