Steven Leigh Morris

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows th ... More >>

Anne Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy, Reviewed

Amy Graves​ This week in our theater section, Steven Leigh Morris reviews Anne Deavere Smith's latest set of interview-based monologues, Let Me Down Easy, now at the Broad Stage. While the show is marketed as an exploration of the health care debate, Morris writes, "to describe Let Me Down Ea ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Ballad of Emmett Till, Dual Citizens, The Subject Was Roses

Also, Wit, Calliope Rose, Barbra’s Wedding and more

Theater Reviews: Camelot, IN THE COMPANY OF JANE DOE, BAAL

Also, The Imaginary Invalid, Loyalties, Doctor Noguchi and more

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO ​Photo by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into "Bumfuck" -- a New Mexico Indian reservation -- she ... More >>

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

Stage Raw: Love's Labour's Lost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW GO LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ​Photo by Amy Graves/Getty ImagesLondon's distinguished Globe Theatre lives up to its reputation with this traditional but resolutely un-stodgy production. Director D ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Scarcity, The Conquest of the South Pole, The Value of Names, Flight

Also, Sweeney Todd, Sherlock’s Last Case and more

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Festen, Just Imagine, Never Land, Save Gertrude

Also, High Ceilings, The Philadelphia Story, The Blunders and more

Stage Raw: Opera Buffing

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK: LA DIDONEPhoto by Paula CourtOPERA BUFFINGThe Wooster Group's La DidoneNYC's The Wooster Group, in partnersh ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Stick Fly, Voice Lessons, Lydia

Also, Our Mother's Brief Affair, >3 and more

Theater Reviews: Mauritius, Tennessee Williams Unscripted, Home Siege Home

Plus, Misalliance, Desperate Writers: The Final Draft and more

Theater Reviews: Bohemian Cowboy, Tartuffe, Black Women — State of the Union

Also, American Guilt, The Taming of the Shrew and more

Theater Reviews: Jane Austen Unscripted, A Skull in Connemara, Model Behavior

Also, The Todd and Molly Show, Dai, Stormy Weather and more

Theater Reviews: Echo One-Act Festival, Pope Joan, Taking Over

Also, Vibrating Sun, Pippin, Macbeth and more

Theater Reviews: You, Nero, Hangin' Out, La Ronde

Also, Around the World in 80 Days, Far From an Angel's Gaze, and more

Theater Reviews: Woyzeck, Daddy's Dyin' Who's Got the Will

Also, Kidnapped by Craigslist, and more

Lack of Talent Showcase

Beverly Winwood Presents

Theater Reviews: Gulls, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Howlin' Blues and Dirty Dogs

Also Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and more

Theater Reviews: Sanctuary, Alexandros

Also, Lucia Mad, In Heat, A Thousand Words, and more

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

Theater Reviews: He Asked for It, Office Sonata, Hedda Gabler

Also, Safe, The Glass Menagerie, and more

Dense Overgrowth

Comments on "City Hall''s ''Density Hawks'' Are Changing L.A.''s DNA"

Theater Reviews: Lost Angeles, Point Break, This Lime Tree Bower

Also this week's pick, The Wreck of the Unfathomable

Theater Reviews: Black Watch, Clay, Lauren Weedman, Durango

Also Goblin Market, Wendy Wasserstein's Third, Twelfth Night and more

Theater Reviews: One Fell Swoop, Eddie Kill the President, Pterodactyls

And remembering artist and activist Joel Bloom

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Theater Reviews

Including White Trash Catholic Circus, Toyer and this week's pick, the Latino Laugh Festival

the [inside] Performances

Theater Reviews: Bug, Scab, Fowl and More

Also reviews of Food for Fish and The Merry Widow

Theater Reviews

Including Billy Connolly Live, The Return of Brother Theodore and this week's pick, Atonement

Theater Reviews

Including Sugar Plum Fairy, Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants and this week's pick, Mabou Mines Dollhouse

Mabou Mines Dollhouse and Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Sandra Tsing Loh's Sugar Plum Fairy, Sister Act and Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks The Car Plays, San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Second Annual Latino New Works Festival

9/11 and Its Effect on American Theater

LA Weekly theater writer Steven Leigh Morris guests on KPCC's Air Talk with Larry Mantle

Theater Reviews

August Wilson's Fences, Buddy and this week's pick, Because They Have No Words

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Bukowsical, Loose and Ubu Roi

Our selective list of (almost) 100 actor-driven ensembles that have staying power:

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