1,861 stories by "Steven Morris"
Yesterday, I received a text from Moscow. "Stevka. Just to let you know what people think about the situation here. We hate this decision. We all think this is against the law. And people h…
The post Slave Play appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
Though it streaks across the theatrical firmament like a comet, its tail is more luminous than the substance of the object itself -- an object that rattles and prattles along its trajectory,…
Power of SailReviewed by Deborah KlugmanGeffen PlayhouseThrough March 20RecommendedIn a society that celebrates diversity and free speech, how tolerant should open-minded people be when the …
The post Stages of Our City: Episode 1 (Julyza Commodore and Terry Morgan) appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.
One thing remains certain: No assembly bill or virus can kill the theater. It will simply move into other spaces, like a song that orbits for a while and then returns in the future with echo…
"The pandemic has affected everyone," says Grossman without hesitation. "I don't think any company or business is the same. And we gotta find a whole new model in order to work in our indu…
Domenico says the idea for the company came after learning that one of the guys in his unit had committed suicide. He was sitting in his acting class at Marymount Manhattan College when he r…
Starting to see the light of the end of the Covid Tunnel begs the question: Is there a future for these pandemic innovations?
The post Has Covid Given Our Theater a Gift? appeared first on S…
Bad behaviour at shows no longer confined to characters as people refuse to pay for watching
Ugly quarrels, outbreaks of unacceptable violence and a sense of anarchy have traditionally been …
"Through the TeenTix Pass Program, teenagers, ages 13-19, can sign up for a free TeenTix Pass, which will allow them to purchase day-of-show tickets for just $5 from participating arts organ…
What the reversed County policy does, however, is throw shade on the hundreds of indoor productions being planned " including the entire Hollywood Fringe Festival, which uses tiny indoor spa…
Fellow colleague Deborah Klugman was in the room at the time and assured him that he was not crazy. He leaned forward in his hospital bed " not an easy task, when hooked up to oxygen " to re…
"When is a play about race in this tragically divisive nation of ours ever not timely?"
The post An Octoroon, at the Fountain Theatre appeared first on STAGE RAW - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRES…
Oliver Dowden wrongly boasts that Minack received emergency government funding
G7 summit: latest news and reaction
A visit to a beautiful open-air clifftop theatre in Cornwall by partners of…
Stoccardo is among an elite pantheon of Los Angeles actors, living and dead, whose every moment on the stage appears sculpted from some combination of craft and charisma. These would include…
For starters, SB 805 would bring countless of impoverished theaters across California, out of the shadows of non-compliance with AB 5 " a risk with draconian financial penalties.
The pos…
Chris was a very good actor, on Broadway in 1967 in The Rose Tattoo and A Patriot for Me, before being contracted to the soap opera, Dark Shadows. He also appeared on General Hospital, Baywa…
You stop remembering the past. You stop imagining the future. You stop just to breathe. A pause. In that breath comes the perfume of the narcissus and hyacinths. Next week, it will be gone, …
I was hired in 2014 as Executive Director to bring some kind of meaningful change to what was, even then, a calcified operation. I resigned at the end of 2018 for all kinds of reasons, the p…
Sometimes I hit a combination of notes in a prelude " a combination so enticing, I have to stop and say, oh, that's really nice. It's like walking in my local meadow when the sun is melting …
One of British Isles' oldest works of drama to be performed for only third time in 300 years
A medieval amphitheatre in the far south-west of Cornwall is to be the venue in the autumn for a …
The question is, in some ways, a question of how to survive during cultural climate change: In the midst of a tempest, do you stake your survival on the smaller rafts that have demonstrated …
MarchReviewed by Dana MartinLos Angeles LGBT Center and Playwrights' ArenaThrough November 15thLA's LGBT Center and Playwrights' Area have gone (COVID compliantly) rogue by staging high stak…
The death tally from this virus now exceeds 210,000 Americans. That's if we believe the official numbers. And, frankly, in October, 2020, why should we?
The post The Shape of Things appear…
