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Monday, December 5, 2011

Friends Don't Let Friends by Karl Levett

James Presson's would-be comedy about television's sitcom industry has a split personality, strangely trying to mix satire with Henrik Ibsen without much success.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:57AM
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Derby Day by Karl Levett

Samuel Brett Williams' new play offers the dynamics of destructive behavior in a work that is not so much over-the-top as up the next hillside.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AM
Monday, November 21, 2011

Ghost Dancer by Karl Levett

Billed as "a new political drama," Robert L. Hecker's play is replete with the best of intentions regarding just causes, self-sacrifice, and political protest but devolves into muddle-head…

SOURCE: Backstage at 02:11AM
Sunday, November 6, 2011

The Maddening Rain by Karl Levett

Playwright Nicholas Pierpan's moral fable of an inauthentic 21st-century man is given a compelling, authentic performance by Felix Scott in the Brits Off Broadway festival.

SOURCE: Backstage at 04:30AM
Monday, October 17, 2011

Blame it on Beckett by Karl Levett

This examination of hijinks at a regional theater, highlighting the role of the dramaturge, could do with some reshaping of its own.

SOURCE: Backstage at 02:49AM
Monday, July 18, 2011

Peg O' My Heart by Karl Levett

In this musical version of a 1912 play, the plot may be thin but the tunes are truly tuneful, in an old-fashioned show neatly performed.

SOURCE: Backstage at 03:01AM
Monday, July 11, 2011

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Karl Levett

This modern-day production has diverting gender-bender inclinations, but it soon gets swamped in busy-bee business and inconsistent performances as poetry and magic struggle to survive.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:43PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Our Lot by Karl Levett

Kristin Newbom and W. David Hancock's new play is yet another examination of dysfunctional siblings, a well-trodden path brightened by a superior cast.

SOURCE: Backstage at 08:30AM
Thursday, June 9, 2011

The East Village Chronicles by Karl Levett

In Metropolitan Playhouse's second annual festival, the East Village, past and present, is explored with varying degrees of invention and success in eight new short plays seen on two progr…

SOURCE: Backstage at 02:52AM
Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Un-Marrying Project by Karl Levett

Larry Kunofsky's well-intentioned but unwieldy new play, lacking the fast-moving, satirical style it's premise needs, will hardly do much for the cause of gay marriage.

SOURCE: Backstage at 06:49AM
Sunday, April 3, 2011

NY Review: 'The Promise' by Karl Levett

We meet another Miss Brodie from Scotland in Douglas Maxwell's compelling if overwrought character study, and Joanna Tope shines in this one-woman play.

SOURCE: Backstage at 07:00AM
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