Steven Leigh Morris

Open House, a Play That Merges the Real Estate Crisis With Salvador Dali

Steven Leigh MorrisAugust 1, 2013

Los Feliz's Skylight Theatre has become the home for L.A. scribe Shem Bitterman, who's had his plays staged in this city for decades. His latest, a real estate mystery named Open House, premiered last week. Before getting to Open House, it's worth perusing Bitterman's past writings, which reveal patterns applicable......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 25, 2013

Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Also, recommendations for Theatricum Botanicum's new work Merlin: The Untold Adventures......

A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 25, 2013

In Bruce Norris' stark comedy A Parallelogram, 30-ish Bee (Marin Ireland) — a regional manager for Rite Aid, a job that's "very fulfilling," she quips — is in this inexorably doomed relationship with a slightly older man (Tom Irwin) whom, later in the play, the older Bee (Marylouise Burke) will......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including One Actor's Excursion into Peruvian Drugs

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 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 listings, see below. This week's theater feature, on the shadows that govern our lives, looks at Shakespeare Center of......

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alcestis Show What Lurks in the Darkness

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 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 play presented in single season. Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, or some variation on it, is running or has been presented recently by troupes including Theatricum......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 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 pick. For all new theater reviews, plus this weekend's stage listings, see below.This week's......

Two L.A. Plays About Creative People Who Won't Compromise Their Ideals

Steven Leigh MorrisJuly 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 ability of people to bring their pure ideas, and ideals, into the real world. We're invited to watch and cringe at how these dreams......

Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show

Steven Leigh MorrisJune 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 wall is actually green. We walk together through a passageway leading to the theater's backstage. A view from the stage wings opens up on the profile of......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Stunning Play With a Very Long Title

Steven Leigh MorrisJune 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 Fringe reviews and this weekend's citywide theater listings, see below. This week's theater feature also looks at politics......

Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe

Steven Leigh MorrisJune 20, 2013

How many theater companies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón's Neva, which just closed after playing its scheduled one week in a Kirk Douglas Theatre rehearsal hall as part of Center Theatre Group's Douglas Plus series, is a co-production of three of our most......

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Steven Leigh Morris

Open House, a Play That Merges the Real Estate Crisis With Salvador Dali

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka

A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including One Actor's Excursion into Peruvian Drugs

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alcestis Show What Lurks in the Darkness

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner

Two L.A. Plays About Creative People Who Won't Compromise Their Ideals

Val Kilmer Tells Us Why the World Needs Another Mark Twain Solo Show

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Stunning Play With a Very Long Title

Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe

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