Steven Leigh Morris

Near the start of Martin Guerre, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg‘s much retooled musical (with lyrics by Boublil and Stephen Clark), a cannon, fired during a holy war in 16th-century France, sends out a perfect ring of smoke that floats halfway over the orchestra section before dissipating. The effect is......

Photo by Craig Schwartz AUGUST WILSON'S JITNEY AND DAVID HENRY Hwang's Golden Child occupy the north and south poles of a shared planet: Though situated at what would seem to be opposite ends of the Earth, their landscapes are strikingly similar. Both plays are about family and its attendant, even......

Don‘t expect Tim Miller to go softly into that good night -- that good night being Canada, where he’s already researching legal papers for political asylum. In fact, don‘t expect Miller -- one of the “NEA Four” who helped fan the flames of the controversy over public-arts funding -- to......

Integrity is a slippery fish. “You can sell without selling out,” insists Stephen Trask, composer-lyricist of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the punk-rock musical comedy about a femme transsexual singer on the skids. In the wake of its smash off-Broadway engagement, the San Francisco--bound Hedwig has toured Boston, is currently......

Any Surrealist in good standing has to love nuclear physics. First Albert Einstein suggests that time gets a bit loopy out in the cosmos, crumpling like tissue paper within black holes. Then we learn in quantum mechanics that the motion of subatomic particles is impossible to measure and that time......

Here‘s an idea that’s been brewing since I saw Space (still at the Mark Taper Forum), Tina Landau‘s gush-filled ode to the cosmos and our changing views of it, in a production with visual beauty, romance, sound, fury -- and an alien abduction or two. If Space actually had a......

I could have been a Schopenhauer. I could have been a Dostoyevsky! What am I saying? I’m losing my mind! --Vanya, from Anton Chekhov‘s Uncle Vanya Near the close of Peter Shaffer’s still-enthralling play Amadeus (now at the Ahmanson in a Broadway-bound revival directed by Sir Peter Hall, who also......

Tragedy has struck twice in three months at the Sacred Fools Theater Company, stealing company member J. Haran (38), who succumbed to cancer on September 28, on the heels of company co-founder Danielle Surrette‘s shocking death in late June. A native of Mount Kisco, New York, Haran appeared in half......