Posts Tagged ‘steven leigh morris’
A Producer and a Critic Walk into a Bar…and Beat the Shit out of Each Other!
Whoa Nellie.
Guess I left the bar a little early cuz producer Rick Culbertson and LA Weekly critic Steven Leigh Morris have been wailing on each other since last we left [...]
DUAL CITIZENS: 100% Bittersweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The story of Broken Nails is less stunning than Ms. Skubik’s performance. It is the usual story of an aging star using power and manipulation to keep her flame [...]
A Producer and a Critic Walk Into a Bar…
Fun little tussle going on between producer Rick Culbertson and LA Weekly critic Steven Leigh Morris over at Rick’s site. The beef: whether the Actor-Critic can remain unbiased when [...]
THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The problem may be one of taste, but it ties directly back to the compulsion to spill the guts theatrically. Finney’s staging of the abduction starts brilliantly, with a pair [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
“Laurie Metcalf fashioned a “cameltoe” out of spandex.”
If that doesn’t get your attention this Sunday morning, I don’t know what will.
Yes, feeling a bit randy on this the Sabbath Day and thought I’d pass along a funny, [...]
Critique of the Week
NORTH ATLANTIC
by Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly
If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set the dial on the scan mode. Every [...]
NORTH ATLANTIC: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET
With an ensemble that includes such company stalwarts as Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos and Scott Shepherd, along with Oscar winner Frances McDormand, who was in the delightful 2002 Wooster Group [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
SOUVENIR: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTER
Even with its elegant production design, including a NYC skyline that pops up when needed via slide projections, and Nick McCord’s delicate lighting design, Gregg W. Brevvort’s production is [...]
