Monday, October 5, 2015
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
How do we talk about offensive racial stereotypes without smarming each other with accusations of bigotry — blatant or latent?
This isn’t a “diversity” dis…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:18PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
"Most audiences and critics want to be moved, knocked out. That is a sign of their illness, blindness, need to remain children. Most audiences want a perceivable, nameable content...that the…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:11PMMonday, August 3, 2015
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
been rifling through my late mother’s house lately, preparing it for sale in accordance with her will. I’m one of two successor trustees. My sister is the othe…
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 03:44PMFriday, July 3, 2015
What now? A conversation between Steven Leigh Morris and Rebecca Metz on the next steps for 99-seat theatre.
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 12:58AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
Sometimes, on a bicycle, in order to better understand where you’re going, you have to look backwards.
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 02:54AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
Steven Leigh Morris, who teaches a world theater class in San Bernardino, quotes from some of the students' disparate reactions to classic plays (which were read and/or seen on film).
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 03:31PMFriday, December 27, 2013
For all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings, see below.
Our list of the top 10 plays in 2013 is this week's theater feature.
This is the last posting of Stage Raw at this loc…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:45AMThursday, December 19, 2013
A "beguiling interactive adaptation" of the Alladin story is this week's Pick of the Week. It features with Bruce Vilanch and Ben Vereen, among others. Warm feelings also for the just-closed…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:45PMThursday, December 12, 2013
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht find themselves on the Santa Monica Pier for Paul Sand's Kurt Weill at the Cuttlefish Hotel -- a cabaret that critic Paul Birchall describes as a "tour de force…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:49PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Steven Leigh Morris, beginning a monthly column at LA STAGE Times, emphasizes the importance of retaining professional critics during the Yelp era.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:27PMThursday, December 5, 2013
A Christmas Carol at Sierra Madre Playhouse crawls inside the head of Scrooge, and nabs this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also liked a "turbo-charged" A Christmas Carol at Zombie Joe…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:56PMThursday, November 28, 2013
A spooky, horror magic show, Todd Robbins' and Teller's Play Dead at Geffen Playhouse, is this week's Pick. A good review also for In the Heights presented by Teatro Nuevo Horizontes and Cas…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 09:30AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Fionnuala Kenny's Elvis's Toenail takes us back to 1961 Dublin. Critic Neal Weaver found himself entranced by the classical strain between people and church. The production at Burbank's Sidw…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:53PMThursday, November 14, 2013
Lewis Carroll meets Charles Dickens in Daniel Rover Singer's play on the literati at South Pasadena's Fremont Centre Theatre, called A Perfect Likeness. Our critic Deborah Klugman enjoyed it…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:12PMThursday, November 7, 2013
An intense one-act about a showdown between a schoolteacher and a parent, Gidion's Knot, presented by Furious Theatre Company at the Pasadena Playhouse's Carrie Hamilton Theatre, is this wee…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:51PMThursday, October 31, 2013
Marcus Gardley's epic tale of freed slaves in Oklahoma, the road weeps, the trail runs dry at LATC, nabs this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also felt warmly for Beckett's Endgame at P…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 01:08PMThursday, October 24, 2013
Our critics enjoyed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at Actors Co-op, Awake and Sing at Group Repertory Theatre and Cirque du Soleil's Totem. This week's Pick of the Week goes to David Grieg's adapta…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 02:43PMThursday, October 10, 2013
Writer-director John DiFusco's revival of his Vietnam drama Tracers impressed Paul Birchall enough to earn it this week's Pick. For all new reviews and stage listings, see below
Breaking up…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:09PMFriday, October 4, 2013
Bathsheba Doran's "elliptical comedy about those who save us and those who don't" drew praises from Jenny Lower, and is is this week's Pick. For all the latest new theater reviews, and theat…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:50PMThursday, September 26, 2013
A ten-year anniversary revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart snagged this week's Pick by Neal Weaver, thanks in large part to the power of Simon Levy's staging. Pauline Adamek enjoyed L…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:12PMThursday, September 19, 2013
This was a week marked by enthusiasm by our various critics: Bill Raden praised Sacred Fools' production of Edward Einhorn's 2010 adaptation of Philip K. Dick sci-fi book Do Androids Dream o…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:00AMThursday, September 12, 2013
No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage li…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:11PMThursday, September 5, 2013
John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-D…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:19PMThursday, August 22, 2013
Faeries and shadows and mortals being fools grab this week's Pick -- yes, another Midsummer Night's Dream, but the Actors Gang version is unusually fine, says critic Deborah Klugman. Also go…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 08:00AMThursday, August 15, 2013
Tom Sawyer coming of age, and all that represents about America, is depicted in an entertaining stage adaptation at Sierra Madre Playhouse -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- that's this week…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:00AMThursday, August 8, 2013
Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercedes de Acosta, who was also cozy with M…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:00AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularl…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:20PMThursday, July 25, 2013
Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 04:42PMThursday, July 11, 2013
Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is this w…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 10:30AMThursday, June 20, 2013
A play within a rehearsal by Jackie Siblies Drury, about self-indulgent actors and atrocities in Africa, is our pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, including more Holly…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 03:17PMThursday, June 13, 2013
It's Fringe, Fringe and more Fringe festival coverage this week in new theater reviews (see below) and this week's theater feature. There will be a bit more Fringe coverage next week, but w.…
SOURCE: LA Weekly at 11:00AM 
