Steven Leigh Morris

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Steven Leigh MorrisFebruary 7, 2013

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listings, see below.The Deep Throat......

The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue

Steven Leigh MorrisFebruary 7, 2013

There are a number of reasons why it's hard to get all warm and fuzzy about porn as a poster child for the First Amendment. Maybe it has something to do with porn's connections to prostitution, organized crime and human trafficking. Or maybe it's to do with so many sexting-suicide......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Play About the Peanuts Characters All Grown Up

Steven Leigh MorrisFebruary 1, 2013

Absolutely Filthy, Brendan Hunt's riff on the Peanuts cartoon series, is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the latest New Reviews, and complete theater listings, see below. Two head-tripping plays are the topic of this week's Stage Feature: David Weiner's Cassiopeia at Boston Court and the now-closed Ganesh......

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 31, 2013

Theater audiences, beware! Run for cover if you need to. Big ideas are crashing down like meteors, from UCLA to Pasadena. Australia's Back to Back Theater visited UCLA's Ralph Freud Playhouse over the weekend, as part of the international theater program of the university's Center for the Art of Performance......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 24, 2013

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two shows......

Plays by Theatre Movement Bazaar and Opera del Espacio Show the Power of Ensemble-Created Theater

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 24, 2013

sequence of events while seeing shows over the weekend brought on one of those moments where you look around and say, things are not as they were 10 years ago. In this case, what's different is that "ensemble-created" theater, the subject of our Theater issue last April, has become far......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 17, 2013

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, which just opened......

The Rainmaker: Why We Keep Reviving That Old Chestnut

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 17, 2013

A con-man/drifter walks into a small town, usually in the Midwest, and seduces a vulnerable local female. He not only seduces her, he awakens her to her true self and potential, which the opinions of others — her family and society — have been suffocating. Oh, brother. Get the broom......

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 10, 2013

Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows that......

Emancipation Proclamations

Steven Leigh MorrisJanuary 10, 2013

In small theaters, bold new artistic strokes don't necessarily lead to long-running productions — at least not in L.A. In fact, one can see the inverse in a quartet of old-fashioned, even creaky, plays now onstage at local theaters, all bathing in the glow of love-letter reviews from local critics......

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Steven Leigh Morris

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

The Deep Throat Sex Scandal Celebrates a Famous First Amendment Victory But Ignores the Bigger Issue

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Play About the Peanuts Characters All Grown Up

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Plays by Theatre Movement Bazaar and Opera del Espacio Show the Power of Ensemble-Created Theater

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

The Rainmaker: Why We Keep Reviving That Old Chestnut

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Emancipation Proclamations

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