Full Review from Brewster Cultural Arts Performance

Put a Little Magic in Your Life at “The Return of Wonder”:

The Close-Up Magic of Barry Levy

Get your mind boggled and funny bone tickled with Master Magician Barry Levy. Levy’s eye-popping, uncanny illusions will leave you baffled, bewildered and believing that all is not what it seems. It’s almost as if the wizardly trickster taps into another dimension where earthly physics no longer holds sway.

Along the way, Levy invites his audiences to participate in all the mysterious fun by peppering his performance with sly and wryly amusing jokes – Levy’s levity, so to speak.  And while he’s been known to make rabbits appear and disappear and dollar bills float in the air in defiance of gravity, at a recent Brewster appearance the master mostly stuck to impossible card tricks. Don’t even bother trying to figure out how he makes the cards zip in and out of reality, even if you have a Ph.D. in magic: Levy’s amazing act is beyond comprehension – and that’s the way it should be!

A practicing magician for more than 40 years, the Danbury resident was trained in the enchanting arts by legendary magicians Tony Slydini, Frank Garcia, and Ricky Jay, among others.  He’s apparently also learned a few things about entertaining audiences from TV talk show hosts like former magician Johnny Carson, creator of Carnac the Magnificent.  There's never a dull moment with Levy – just plenty of wacky, thought-provoking, bewildering ones.