Steven Leigh Morris

November 9 through 19 marked the second annual Edge of the World Theater Festival (a.k.a. Edgefest), a nonjuried showcase of stage offerings almost entirely from local troupes, at venues in all corners of the city. (There was a visiting company this year, A Hairy Innovation, spawned by UC San Diego,......

Putting aside the eternal appeal of sex and bad language for a moment, the legacy -- and clairvoyance -- of D.H. Lawrence’s once banned 1928 novel, Lady Chatterly‘s Lover, lies in the image of a young, newlywed aristocrat named Clifford returning to Britain from service in the Great War, paralyzed......

Photo by Tom Lawlor Alan Stanford has been playing Pozzo for the Gate Theatre Dublin’s much-heralded production of Waiting for Godot since he was 36. He’s 51 now, and feels that, more often than not, productions of the play get short shrift because they tend to be done by “black-box......

The Lion King opens this week at the newly refurbished Pantages Theater, and many in our local theater world are hoping, as a result, to see an improvement in public perceptions of Los Angeles as a “theater town.” The Shubert Theater and the Los Angeles Theater Center were expected to......

Dear Doctor, Last night I dreamed I saw a play called Pathe X by Ricardo Zeger, presented by Zoo District at the Lillian Theater in Hollywood. When I woke up this morning, I couldn’t remember it at all. This upset me a lot, in part because I know for a......

Photo by Joan Marcus “Isn’t that remarkable,” reflects washed-up traveling salesman Willy Loman (Brian Dennehy) after his estranged, prodigal son Biff (Ron Eldard) — a former high school football star, now a migrant ranch worker and petty thief — gently kisses him on the cheek during Biff’s final visit home......

Shortly after John Fitzgerald Kennedy‘s assassination, his widow, Jacqueline, remarked that her late husband’s life “had more to do with myth, magic, legend, saga and story than with political theory or political science . . . You must think of him as this little boy, sick so much of the......

The Darker Face of the Earth -- former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove’s first full-length play, a 1994 adaptation of Sophocles‘ Oedipus the King -- adds up to so many chips off the old block that it actually creates a new block. A small monument, even. In some ways, it’s......

Adapter-director Shishir Kurup subtitles his Orwellian adaptation of Sophocles‘ Antigone ”a Greek tragedy hijack.“ That’s putting it mildly. You probably know that Antigone (played by the broodingly intense Page Leong) -- here an ”interdisciplinary artist“ -- was always a surly brat, and Kurup hasn‘t changed that. After all, Oedipus was......

A Noise Within, Southern California’s premier classical-rep company, is returning to Glendale after what co--artistic director Julia Rodriguez Elliott calls ”the most difficult year of our existence“ -- its first and last ”in residence“ at the 1,150-seat Harriet and Charles Luckman Performing Arts Complex on the Cal State L.A. campus......