by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS This is the first installment of a two-part column. STAGE Alliance held six intimate community forums at six different locations across the region over the pas…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Azadeh Ahmadibaseri and her husband, Mohammad (Mo) Faraji, are both in their early 30s, and, at the time we met, were celebrating their 43rd day of living in the U…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Before I was hired at the beginning of December by LA STAGE Alliance to run the joint, I recall hearing in the community a fairly common question: So what does LA STA…
"That damage was mitigated somewhat when the city's rent stabilization program " a partnership of the city, the county and the L.A. Tourism Bureau " passed by City Council vote in 2018...…
by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS last week's Stage Raw symposium on the economics of arts coverage, KCRW commentator Anthony Byrnes made a painfully sharp point that we, as a theater community, ha…
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" discussion …
"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…
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 other, b…
What now? A conversation between Steven Leigh Morris and Rebecca Metz on the next steps for 99-seat theatre.
Sometimes, on a bicycle, in order to better understand where you're going, you have to look backwards.
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).
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…
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…
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…
Steven Leigh Morris, beginning a monthly column at LA STAGE Times, emphasizes the importance of retaining professional critics during the Yelp era.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…