America's most uncoordinated childhood ballet and tap student before discovering that her talents were music and writing, Marakay Rogers finally traded in her violin for law school when she realized that she might make more money in law than she did performing with the Potomac Symphony and in orchestra pits around the mid-Atlantic. Unfortunately, she forgot to factor in the student loan repayments! She has never recovered from being chewed out by Terrence Mann in public for hanging up her bow.
A graduate of Wilson College (PA), Marakay is also a writer, film reviewer and interviewer. Additionally, as of 2014, she serves as vice-chair of the Advisory Board of the Beaux Arts Society, Inc. and is a member of GALECA.
She's also taught college-level communications, writing, theatre criticism and English literature classes, has received multiple writing awards for several small-press novels, and is listed in Marquis' "Who's Who in America". She has done additional post-collegiate English and drama studies coursework with Open University (UK) in drama and literature.
Her junior high English teacher was Broadway star Katrina Yaukey's mother, Kay Yaukey. (Her high school math teacher was Ordean Yaukey, Katrina Yaukey's father, but between Marakay's mother, an editor, and Katrina's mother, English won out.) Marakay is senior theatre critic for Central Pennsylvania and a senior editor for BWWBooksWorld as well as a classical music reviewer. In her free time, Marakay practices law and often gets it right.
BWW Reviews: DEATHTRAP With Marsha Mason at Bucks County Playhouse
July 7, 2014
July 7, 2014
Off-Broadway's Evan Cabnet directs a DEATHTRAP with Marsha Mason as the ever-amazing Helga ten Dorp. There are some other amazing things here as well, of all sorts.
BWW Reviews: RING OF FIRE Lights Up Totem Pole Playhouse
July 7, 2014
July 7, 2014
The bio-musical of the life and music of Johnny Cash takes center stage at Totem Pole with the best band you'll see on stage this year.
Local Report: South Williamsport High School Cancels SPAMALOT, Cites 'Inappropriate' Content
July 4, 2014
July 4, 2014
The South Williamsport Junior/Senior High School has ordered its drama department to scrub Monty Python's SPAMALOT as too controversial for its area.
BWW Reviews: A Sparkling, Spangled GYPSY at York Little Theatre
June 30, 2014
June 30, 2014
Christopher Quigley and leads Jenna Mae Reck and Chris Ausherman brought the story of America's most notorious stage mother and her strong-willed daughter to life on the YLT stage
BWW Reviews: THE LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS Caps Theatre Harrisburg Season
June 30, 2014
June 30, 2014
Theatre Harrisburg closed this year's season with a Neil Simon classic before preparing for next season's strong schedule
BWW Reviews: EPAC Presents a Chilling, Thought-Provoking AGNES OF GOD
June 23, 2014
June 23, 2014
Director John Goncar and a talented cast bring the chilling story of nuns and infanticide to the Ephrata stage
Boston STAR TREK Convention Features Avery Brooks, Other Popular Television and Film Actors
June 16, 2014
June 16, 2014
The Hynes Convention Center hosts a Creation Entertainment convention featuring actors from Star Trek franchises with a host of other popular shows and movies behind them, where fans can meet them personally
BWW Reviews: Opera Philadelphia's A COFFIN IN EGYPT -- Von Stade is Wonderful, But It's Otherwise Mummified
June 16, 2014
June 16, 2014
Von Stade out of retirement is cause for celebration, but there's no other purpose to the vehicle for it
BWW Reviews: A Nearly Perfect LES MISERABLES Takes Stage at The Fulton
June 16, 2014
June 16, 2014
The musical for people who don't like musicals is a big production for people who like big productions at The Fulton
BWW Reviews: MARTINE'S RIVERHOUSE in New Hope Boasts Food With a View
June 16, 2014
June 16, 2014
Martine's, a New Hope institution, boasts food that matches its spectacular view of the Delaware River
BWW Reviews: JEEVES IN BLOOM Takes Root at Oyster Mill Playhouse
June 12, 2014
June 12, 2014
Lois Heagy directs the adaptation of PG Wodehouse's classic 'Right Ho, Jeeves'
BWW Interview: Timothy Busfield and Melissa Gilbert Talk Stage, Screen, Sorkin, and Working Together
June 11, 2014
June 11, 2014
Recently married, actors Timothy Busfield and Melisa Gilbert, now transplanted to Michigan, have had big careers so far, and huge plans upcoming.
BWW Reviews: SAZON Reclaims Mexican Cuisine in North Carolina
June 9, 2014
June 9, 2014
Chef Alex Rodriguez brings a farm-to-table approach to fresh Mexican cuisine in the North Carolina mountains
BWW Reviews: Dutch Apple's SHREK - Big Music, Big Message, Big Green Ogre
June 2, 2014
June 2, 2014
Seventies R&B meets big ogres and small villains in the biggest, greenest show around
BWW Reviews: LADIES NIGHT IN A TURKISH BATH Has New Allenberry Revival
June 2, 2014
June 2, 2014
New Artistic Director Ryan Gibbs brings back Allenberry's classic farce one more time.
BWW Reviews: STEEL MAGNOLIAS Ushers in New Season, New Direction at Totem Pole Playhouse
June 1, 2014
June 1, 2014
Producing Artistic Director Rowan Joseph shows what Totem Pole's got with a new production of the classic STEEL MAGNOLIAS featuring 'Little House' star Melissa Gilbert as M'Lynn
BWW Reviews: Neil Simon's CHAPTER TWO Is a Tarnished Gem at Bucks County Playhouse
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
Marsha Mason lived it, starred in the film, and now directs Neil Simon's CHAPTER TWO at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope.
BWW Interview: Melissa Gilbert Talks STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Totem Pole Playhouse
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
The popular TV-film actor and star of 'Little House on the Prairie' talks coming to Central Pennsylvania to star in STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Totem Pole Playhouse.
BWW Reviews: Philadelphia's Piffaro Scores A Hit With Its PRISONERS AND PENITENTS Season Close
May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014
The internationally noted Renaissance ensemble performed music to lament one's fate by, inside one of Pennsylvania's most historic prisons. It's worth performing anywhere.
BWW Reviews: The Foibles of DON GIOVANNI at Opera Philadelphia
May 19, 2014
May 19, 2014
Nicholas Muni gives a stylish yet peculiar take on an age-old story
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