Steven Leigh Morris

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

Steven Leigh MorrisMay 9, 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, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about......

Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New

Steven Leigh MorrisMay 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 Theatre in Culver City is the second successive new play penned by an author who was first discovered in the 10-Minute Play festival presented at Louisville's Humana......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Docudrama About Slavery

Steven Leigh MorrisMay 2, 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 praiseworthy. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and regionwide stage listings.This week's theater feature looks......

Colorblind and I'm Not Rappaport, Two Plays Dealing With Race Relations

Steven Leigh MorrisMay 2, 2013

Wallace Demarria bills himself as executive producer, writer, director and star of his play Colorblind, playing through the weekend at Meta Theatre. Such multiple, key credits landing on one person is generally the warning sign of a vanity production, stemming from the insatiable appetite of a runaway ego, or of......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 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 Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater reviews,......

A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 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 hegemony of the 99-cents-only theater genre, the solo performance — a genre so often abused by critics for its penchant to either impersonate a celebrity or......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 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 in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. David Mamet......

Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 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 Randall Arney's staging of Mamet's 1975 American Buffalo at the Geffen Playhouse, which opened last week. It's then worth perusing Pinter's 1960 one-act The......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 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 Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people......

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

Steven Leigh MorrisApril 11, 2013

Writer-director Randy Johnson's musical bio-concert One Night With Janis is breaking records for daily sales, reports the Pasadena Playhouse, the theater where it's now playing. The press release cited March 19 as the day that shattered all records for a single day's sales at the theater, as though selling tickets......

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Steven Leigh Morris

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

Marco Ramirez's The Royale and Theatre Movement Bazaar's Hot Cat Make Old Stories New

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Docudrama About Slavery

Colorblind and I'm Not Rappaport, Two Plays Dealing With Race Relations

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

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