Steven Leigh Morris

Pondering modern sex roles on a recent radio call-in show, the host was forcefully making the rather medieval point that men's power still resides in their wallets, women's in their looks. A male poet, broke, may strike a sexy figure in his early 20s, the argument went, but such romanticism......

Something wondrous occurred last month - a shot of support for those of us who still believe that theater can (and should) claim a vaster turf than TV or movies, that in some indescribably powerful and primitive way it can renew us. It was midmorning when members of the San......

When he was only 11, Paul Rosario took $240 he'd earned from his newspaper-delivery route and invested it in Comsat. "Not G.M., not even G.M. preferred," he explains to the audience in Larry Atlas' scintillating new play, Yield of the Long Bond, now at the Matrix Theater. "A new issue,......

CHICAGO Book by FRED EBB & BOB FOSSE Music by JOHN KANDER Lyrics by FRED EBB At the AHMANSON THEATER 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Through July 5 There are moments when Chicago, at the Ahmanson Theater, is so dazzling it invites comparison to great theater — comparisons that scrape......

Every play is, on some level, a map of the world, a grid of common reference points. The Broadway hit Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk (at the Ahmanson Theater), for example, is a wildly kinetic song-and-tap-dance tour of African-American history that can’t fail to strike a familiar......

OUR TOWN By THORNTON WILDER At SOUTH COAST REPERTORY 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Through March 28 GROSS INDECENCY: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde By MOISÉS KAUFMAN At the MARK TAPER FORUM 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Through March 29 The central character of Our Town isn't anybody......

Yes, it's true that Dan Gerrity and Jeremy Lawrence's Melody Jones (in a return engagement at Theatre/Theater) is set entirely in a Buffalo, New York, strip club, and that the stage is filled with skin and all manner of "exotic" dancing. The club's employees spend much of the play speaking......

Who says Anton Chekhov was a kind, compassionate man? I think he was a sadist and, even in death, remains one - lulling actors and directors into his moody, atmospheric worlds before pinning them to the stage and driving a stake through their hearts. To see evidence of such Gothic......