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41 stories by "Karl Levett"

Professor Bernhardi by Karl Levett

This production of a rarely presented Arthur Schnitzler play is dogged by an unwieldy translation and a large, uneven cast but features a title performance of genuine distinction.

SOURCE: Backstage at 7:30am on February 5, 2012

One Thousand Blinks by Karl Levett

Playwright Nick Starr displays an overactive imagination in this muddled sci-fi fantasy, whose characters are mere puppets and which is stuffed with everything except logic.

SOURCE: Backstage at 8:00am on January 17, 2012

The London Merchant or, The History of George Barnwell by Karl Levett

This cautionary 1731 play by George Lillo, never before seen in New York, is the forefather of every "she done him wrong" drama.

SOURCE: Backstage at 12:33pm on January 10, 2012

NY Review: 'The Pirates of Penzance' by Karl Levett

Under the ever-enterprising Albert Bergeret, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players delivers a cheery account of this classic comic operetta, strong on song and good-natured humor.

SOURCE: Backstage at 3:48am on December 29, 2011

James X by Karl Levett

In this theatrical accusation, written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn, an Irishman details in exuberant language the horrendous damage inflicted upon him by church and state.

SOURCE: Backstage at 7:30am on December 9, 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 3:57am on December 5, 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 8:00am on December 1, 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 2:11am on November 21, 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 4:30am on November 6, 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 2:49am on October 17, 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 3:01am on July 18, 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 on July 11, 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 8:30am on June 14, 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 2:52am on June 9, 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 6:49am on April 10, 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 7:00am on April 3, 2011
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