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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Fun Home by Steven Morris

Fun HomeReviewed by Mayank Keshaviah Ahmanson Theatre Through April 1 RECOMMENDEDMemory is rarely linear, clearly outlined, or objective. Instead, we tend to remember the past in soft focus,…

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

For Piano and Harpo by Steven Morris

For Piano and HarpoReviewed by Vanessa Cate The Falcon Theatre Through March 5thOscar Levant was a Hollywood personality from a bygone age. It would be unfair to try to pigeonhole him, he wa…

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Die, Mommy, Die! by Steven Morris

Die, Mommy, Die!Reviewed by Neal WeaverCelebration Theatre at the LexThrough March 26 RECOMMENDEDCross-dressing actor-comedian Charles Busch wrote this glossy movie parody as a vehicle for h…

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Liana and Ben by Steven Morris

Liana and BenReviewed by Vanessa Cate Circle X Theatre Co. Through March 26If the truth lies in stories, as playwright Susan Rubin suggests, what truth is to be garnered from the labyrinthin…

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King Lear by Steven Morris

King LearReviewed by Maureen Lee LenkerA Noise WithinThrough May 6th RECOMMENDEDWhile Hamlet may be the brass ring for young male actors, King Lear looms large for those who’ve sustained t…

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Lyrics From Lockdown by Steven Morris

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Friday, February 17, 2017

Zoot Suit by Steven Morris

Zoot SuitReviewed by Julio MartinezThe Mark Taper ForumThrough March 26 Luis Valdez’s chronicle of the historic early 1940’s “Sleepy Lagoon” murder case, Zoot Suit, originally premie…

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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Steven Morris

Long Day’s Journey into NightReviewed by Paul Birchall Geffen Playhouse Through March 18Only a dunderhead would criticize Eugene O’Neill’s powerhouse drama about the unravelling of one…

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

33 VARIATIONS by Steven Morris

33 VARIATIONSReviewed by Neal WeaverActors Co-OpThrough March 19 RECOMMENDEDThis play by Moises Kaufman is an extraordinary piece of work — rich, multifaceted and multilayered, both distur…

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946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips by Steven Morris

946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus TipsReviewed by Terry Morgan Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Through March 5thRECOMMENDEDWilliam Faulkner’s famous quote “The past is n…

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Claudio Quest by Steven Morris

Claudio QuestReviewed by Katie BuennekeChance TheaterThrough February 26Beating a video game is no simple feat, and neither is writing a musical — especially a new musical about video game…

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Monday, February 13, 2017

The Mad Russian and the Dane, Part 2: More Rudi by Steven Morris

“'Twenty dollars?' he said, incredulously. It was a good thing we were standing at the time, because at that moment I realized that I was considerably taller than he, and that tiny advanta…

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Thursday, February 9, 2017

Every Brilliant Thing by Steven Morris

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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

L.A. Theater’s Witch Hunters by Steven Morris

"A few days after the ad was posted, Rivera’s casting director Raul Clayton Staggs and Rivera received a letter from a mysterious address [email protected], which, at the bottom of t…

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Dorothy Parker UnScripted by Steven Morris

Dorothy Parker UnScriptedReviewed by Maureen Lee LenkerImpro TheatreThrough February 25th RECOMMENDEDDorothy Parker UnScripted is the latest in Impro Theatre’s unique brand of completely i…

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King Hedley II by Steven Morris

King Hedley IIReviewed by Neal WeaverThe Matrix TheatreThrough February 12 RECOMMENDEDThis play by the late August Wilson is part of his 10-play series about the black experience in each of …

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Thursday, February 2, 2017

White Guy on the Bus by Steven Morris

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Shades of Disclosure by Steven Morris

Shades of DisclosureReviewed by Paul Birchall Skylight Theatre Through Febuary 25RECOMMENDEDIt’s not helpful to dwell on the generation gap between the young and the old, particularly in t…

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Fugu by Steven Morris

FuguReviewed by Neal WeaverWest Coast Jewish Theatre at Pico PlayhouseThrough March 19 RECOMMENDED                        We don’t usually think of the Japanese as b…

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

fellowship (a play for volunteers) by Steven Morris

fellowship (a play for volunteers)Reviewed by Mayank Keshaviah Cornerstone Theatre Through February 12 RECOMMENDEDOpponents of the new administration in Washington have issued a vociferous c…

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Plasticity by Steven Morris

PlasticityReviewed by Lovell Estell IIIHudson Guild TheatreThrough March 13The title of this play refers to the brain’s ability to rewire or reorganize itself by forming new neural connect…

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Moby Dick by Steven Morris

Moby DickReviewed by Terry Morgan South Coast Repertory/Segerstrom Stage Through Feb. 19th RECOMMENDEDIf one has the audacity to take on the leviathan of American literature, Herman Melville…

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Friday, January 27, 2017

The Found Dog Ribbon Dance by Steven Morris

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Thursday, January 26, 2017

Beckett5 by Steven Morris

Beckett5Reviewed by Neal WeaverOdyssey Theatre EnsembleThrough March 5, 2017 The late playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett did not make things easy for his audiences. He was first of all a…

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Nice Iranian Girl by Steven Morris

Nice Iranian GirlReviewed by Katie BuennekeWhitefire TheatreThrough February 11Nice Iranian Girl, Layla Rumi (a.k.a. Layla Kaleigh)’s one-woman show at the Whitefire Theatre, feels half-ba…

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Rose and the Rime by Steven Morris

Rose and the RimeReviewed by Terry Morgan Sacred Fools Theatre Through Feb. 19th The fairy tale is an effective form of storytelling for many reasons, but the primary one is that everybody i…

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Grimly Handsome by Steven Morris

Grimly HandsomeReviewed by Paul Birchall City Garage Through February 26 RECOMMENDED I am taking an online class from my old college about comparative fairy tales – not the cutesy Disney s…

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Zanna, Don’t! by Steven Morris

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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

The Mad Russian and the Dane, Part 1: Rudi by Steven Morris

"When the entertainment finally got under way, the rumors proved true. The headliner was Judy Garland, alongside other talent including Shelley Winters, Josephine Premice and Carol Channing.…

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Bee-Luther-Hatchee by Steven Morris

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End Up Here by Steven Morris

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