Steven Leigh Morris' Good-Bye Post

In the program of the off-Broadway production of my play Beachwood Drive last year, I wrote in my bio, somewhat facetiously, that among my proudest accomplishments was surviving six rounds of layoffs at the L.A. Weekly. The joke is now on me. That survival streak ended yesterday, when the newspaper’s corporate uberseers in Phoenix eliminated the position of Theater Editor at the paper. Over six years, the “transitions” at this and other papers in the chain have become the alt-weekly’s answer to the French Revolution.

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