The Human Comedy by Steven Morris

The ensemble. (Photo by Larry Sandez) Reviewed by G. Bruce SmithActors Co-opThrough Nov. 5 RECOMMENDED William Saroyan's book The Human Comedy started out as a screenplay, but when MGM dropp…

Love Among the Ruins by Steven Morris

Martin Kildare, JoBeth Williams, and Peter Strauss (Photo by Jim Cox) Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyEl Portal TheatreThrough November 5 RECOMMENDED Watching Love Among the Ruins at the El Por…

Hadestown by Steven Morris

J. Antonio Rodriguez and Company (Photo by T Charles Erickson) Reviewed by Julia StierAhmanson TheatreThrough October 15 RECOMMENDED Like Persephone in the spring, Hadestown has returned " t…

Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by Steven Morris

Spike Pulice and Chloe Reyes (Photo by Sej Gangula) Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Ophelia's JumpThrough Oct. 29 October has swept in the first tides of spooky season, and with it a...

Measure Still For Measure by Steven Morris

Life Sucks by Steven Morris

Sea Of Terror by Steven Morris

Tacos La Brooklyn by Steven Morris

Alejandra Flores and Gavin K. Lee (Photo by Grettel Cortes Photography) Reviewed by Martá½·n Hernández Los Angeles Theatre Center Through October 29 RECOMMENDED What happens when a Chi…

Bisexual Sadness by Steven Morris

Tiffany Wolff and Alaska Jackson (Photo by Peggy McCartha) Reviewed by Julia Stier The Road Theatre Company Through November 5 RECOMMENDED After years of dating women, Faye (Tiffany Wolff) i…

'Transience goes with the territory': Bristol's The Invisible Circus packs its bags after 20 years by Steven Morris

Founders say they have no idea where they will go next as gentrification ends their long residency on an industrial estate There were thrills and spills, laughter and cheers but it was all t…

LA Theater Patron Attitudes and Ethnicities by Steven Morris

The People Have Spoken, Part 2 Ethnicity, and Audience Attitudes By Steven Leigh Morris Note: This is Part 2 in a series of articles analyzing data received in surveys from...

The Right is Ours by Steven Morris

Anna Mintzer (photo by Berrie Tsang) Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Sierra Madre Playhouse Through Oct. 8 America's female suffrage movement dates back to 1848's first women's rights conventi…

Room Service by Steven Morris

Timothy Willard and Fox Carney Reviewed by Martá½·n Hernández The Group Rep Through October 15 In 1937, playwrights John Murray and Allen Boretz scored a Broadway hit with this comic t…

Lobelia by Steven Morris

Gregory Littman, Matthew Tyler and Tina Preston Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Zombie Joe's Underground Theatre Through Sep 24, 2023 Writer/director Sharon Yablon premieres a horror-comedy homag…

How It's Gon' Be by Steven Morris

Nona Parker Johnson and Donté Ashon Green (Photo by Cooper Bates) Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre Through October RECOMMENDED How It's Gon' Be, p…

Every Brilliant Thing by Steven Morris

Daniel K. Isaac (Photo by Isaak Berliner) Reviewed by Taylor Kass Geffen Playhouse Through October 15 RECOMMENDED After his mother's suicide attempt, the unnamed protagonist (Daniel K. Isaac…

The People Have Spoken! by Steven Morris

The People Have Spoken! (Well, Some People Have Spoken) By Steven Leigh Morris Absent data to help explain local theaters' current malaise " assuming the number of productions plummeting reg…

Walking in Space by Steven Morris

Mary Elisabeth Somers, Kathie Barnes, Liv Denevi (Photo by Garry Michael Kluger) Reviewed by Iris Mann Theatre West Through October 8 RECOMMENDED The heartbreaking, autobiographical story of…

The Sound Inside by Steven Morris

Amy Brenneman and Anders Keith (Photo by Mike Palma)  Reviewed by Terry Morgan Pasadena Playhouse Through October 1 After reviewing theater for 26 years, I have an opinion that I think of…

The Real Black Swann by Steven Morris

Les Kurkendaal-Barrett  (Photo by Zev Rose Woolley)  Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Cen…

Ghost Land by Steven Morris

Andriy Bondarenko Ghost Land Translated by John Freedman with Vladyslav Hetmanenko   The Butterfly Iura, a Ukrainian soldier (male, 20s " 40s) Iuliia, Iura's girlfriend/lover (female, 20s…

Blood at the Root by Steven Morris

Nicholas Heard and Ensemble Photo by Jenny Graham Reviewed by Deborah Klugman Open Fist Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre Through October 22 RECOMMENDED Dominique Morisseau wrote Bl…

Freud on Cocaine by Steven Morris

Sara Maraffino and Jonathan Slavin (Photo by Darren Rafel)   Reviewed by Socks Whitmore Whitefire Theatre Through November 4  RECOMMENDED A drug-fueled theatrical romp unlike any other…

An Infinite Ache by Steven Morris

Miles Cooper and Luka Oida (photo by  Katerina Kim Podell) Reviewed by Julyza Commodore The Beverly Hills Playhouse Thru October 1.  RECOMMENDED At the center of David Schulner's An In…

ANDRONICUS! Titus with Ten Clowns by Steven Morris

Carlos Chavez, Chris Merlino (Photo by Rose Bochner) Reviewed by Amanda L. Andrei Chaotique Company Through September 16 Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is a gross show. Roman imperialism, fo…

As You Like It by Steven Morris

Reviewed by G. Bruce SmithLong Beach PlayhouseThrough September 30 What director Michael Hernandez-Phillips and his cast have done so very well in the Long Beach Playhouse production of Will…

The Bluest Eye by Steven Morris

Kacie Rogers, Akilah A. Walker, and Mildred Marie Langford (Photo by Craig Schwartz) Reviewed by Deborah Klugman A Noise Within Through September 24 The Bluest Eye was Toni Morrison's first.…

Tom Ormeny (1946-2023) by Steven Morris

The Lion of Victory Boulevard By Steven Leigh Morris Tom Ormeny died on July 16 from a rapidly growing cancerous brain tumor. He was co-founder of the Victory Theatre Center...

A Slight Ache by Steven Morris

Susan Priver and Shelly Kurtz (photo by Kayte Deioma) Reviewed by Amanda L. Andrei Odyssey Theatre Through October 1 RECOMMENDED In 1934, Danish physicist Niels Bohr wrote of material partic…

Kill Shelter by Steven Morris

Reviewed by Martίn Hernández Theatre of NOTE Through October 1 RECOMMENDED Playwright Ashley Rose Wellman's world premiere dramedy depicts a complex mother-daughter relationship with n…

Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Steven Morris

Samantha Miller, Coral Pena, Lilian Rebelo and Ashley Brooke (Photo by Craig Schwartz Photography) Reviewed by Terry Morgan Kirk Douglas Theatre Through September 17 Although one isn't suppo…