SELECTED MEDIA QUOTES ABOUT ALEX LEVY PRODUCTIONS
Black Caesar
- “Alex Levy guides his cast with a smooth hand and seasoned eye for dramatic detail…One also hopes that theater companies such as Pegasus Players continue to care enough about the world around them to produce loving productions such as this one.” --Brian Kirst, Chicago Free Press
Broken Fences
- “A really, really great show. It’s compelling story, the characters are engaging and easy to relate to, it’s creatively and efficiently staged, and the terrific cast works well together. I highly recommend it.” –Breanna Foister, New York Theatre Review
- “Director Alex Levy deftly handles the eight-person cast on this tiny stage surrounded on three sides by audience members…It deserves to be on Broadway” –Ernece B. Kelly, The New York Beacon
- “Four stars…A first-rate new play directed by Alex Levy”—Jordan Teicher, The Artists Forum
The Taste Of It
- “The Taste of It has some of the hottest, most intense chemistry between any couple on stage this year”—Aurin Squire, New York Theatre Review
- “Director Alex Levy’s character-driven production boasts an intimacy that is really quite powerful.” –Carrie Crow, stageandcinema.com
Macbeth
- "Alex Levy and ensemble build the overall intensity of the action and Macbeth's violent death is an explosive denouement in this story of corruption and evil." --Ellen Dostal, Broadway World
- "In its effortless, and rather inconspicuous, blending of the contemporary with the traditional, Macbeth captures a true timelessness...Through its unorthodox play of the conventional and traditional, Macbeth touches upon the eternal and the never changing."--Magdaleno Rosales, Life in LA
Empanada For a Dream
- "What might, in another production, feel like transitions, here are executed so well, with the help of director Alex Levy...they read as pitch-perfect shifts in tone and tempo. Never taking us out of the story, they instead draw us in, eager to see where we’re going and who we’ll meet next."
- "The undoubted highlight of the festival...If John Leguizamo's 'Freak' had a body count, it would be a bit like Villa's harsh, but often quite funny and touching portrait"--Kerry Reid, Chicago Tribune
- "Wildly exuberant yet wrenching...Highly Recommended"--Hedy Weiss Theater, Chicago Sun Times
- "Harrowing, hilarious, absurd, brave, incredibly well crafted yet terrifying in its rage."--Tony Adler, Chicago Reader
Still Life
- “It [Still Life] gets a brilliant production at Pegasus Players…It is astonishing…this production is superb. People should not miss it!” --Kelly Klieman, National Public Radio
- “Add to that Alex Levy’s innovative direction and you have a play that picks you up by the collar and doesn’t let your feet touch the ground for a full 90 minutes.” --Flavorpill Chicago
- “In the hands of director Alex Levy and three exceptional actors, "Still Life" is painful, taut, profound, and perhaps one of the most powerful performances I have experienced” --Joe Stead, Steadstylechicago.com
Broadway Bound
- “It’s wonderful to see their talents nurtured by a director as clearly capable as Levy” --Catey Sullivan, Pioneer Press
- “Alex Levy’s graceful perfectly paced Pegasus Players production takes full advantage of the play’s strengths…There isn’t a weak performance, and quite a few so strong they’ve displaced my memories of better known actors in the roles.”--Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader
- “Alex Levy has beautifully explored this aspect of ‘art imitating life.’ He also matches Simon scene-for-scene, in the play’s roller coaster ride of emotions, which can have you in tears one moment and in stitches the next.” --Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
- “Alex Levy’s unobstructed but sensitive directing brings out all the play’s rich humor and drama…one of those happy instances in which a fine play intersects with a superb production” --Dan Zeff, Copley New Service
- “Director Levy and his company get everything right with this revival.” --Web Behrens, Chicago Free Press
Insert Title Here
- “The play is beautifully directed—choreographed even—by Alex Levy” --Rebecca L. Ford, Chicago Reader
- “Alex Levy has directed Marrow’s play with great charm and panache” --Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
The Upper Room
- “Alex Levy is responsible for the sensitive, disciplined directing that allows Barr to tell his story without mawkish emotionalism or in-your-face polemics. The result is a humane history lesson that is eloquent, occasionally humorous, and ultimately uplifting.” --Dan Zeff, Copley News Service
- “The Upper Room, under the direction of their excellent Artistic Director Alex Levy, deals with race, art and education and how it can effect our lives…thought-provoking theatre.” --Richard Allen Eisenhardt, Streetwise Chicago
My Soul is a Witness
- “The cast of five had the audience spellbound for the entire duration of the play”--Mandakini Gahlot, The Indian Express
- “The Play worked beautifully…Brilliant!... Chennai is indeed privileged to have hosted the international debut of this marvelous production.” --Madhuri Shekar, The Hindu