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: Heaven and Philly Both Inspire SISTER ACT at Hershey Theatre
February 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
The national tour of SISTER ACT comes to Hershey Theatre with a heady mix of nunsense and the sound of Philadelphia as filtered through Alan Menken. The music -- and the Mother Superior -- are worth the trip.
BWW Reviews: CAUGHT IN THE NET Catches Out-Loud Laughs at Dutch Apple
February 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
Victor Legaretta is back as London cabbie John Smith, king of the bigamists, with a new dilemma -- his children by his two wives just may start dating, with no idea they have the same father. Insanity follows.
BWW Reviews: Rainbow Dinner Theatre's WEEKEND COMEDY Shines in Lancaster
February 27, 2014
February 27, 2014
Cynthia and David DiSavino play -- what? -- an old married couple on stage at Rainbow, while a younger unmarried pair accidentally invades their vacation cabin with unsurprisingly hilarious results
BWW Reviews: Newhouse and Nicholson Deliver a Compelling THE DRESSER at Gamut
February 21, 2014
February 21, 2014
Director Dan Burke and stars David Newhouse and Clark Nicholson put on an intimate and intense production of Ronald Harwood's THE DRESSER
BWW Reviews: LEND ME A TENOR Is Frantic, Frenetic Farce at Theatre Harrisburg
February 17, 2014
February 17, 2014
Ken Ludwig's classic sendup of a potentially failing opera takes stage at the Krevsky Center. Chaos fortunately ensues.
BWW Reviews: Opera Philadelphia Presents Golijov's AINADAMAR
February 14, 2014
February 14, 2014
Opera Philadelphia presents its staging of Golijov's controversial short opera on Garcia Lorca
BWW Reviews: August Wilson's FENCES Is On Fire at Open Stage
February 12, 2014
February 12, 2014
Director Donald Alsedek's production of Wilson's FENCES nearly burns up the stage with a cast that delivers a conflagration of emotional conflict
BWW Reviews: A Frighteningly Funny ARSENIC AND OLD LACE At The Fulton Theatre
February 4, 2014
February 4, 2014
The Walnut Street Theatre's Charles Abbott gives the Fulton the classic play of all going wrong, all going absolutely right. Visually stunning killer comedy.
BWW Reviews: Christie's SPIDER'S WEB Snares Oyster Mill Audiences
January 28, 2014
January 28, 2014
Christie's 1954 drawing room murder comedy may leave audiences laughing themselves to death
BWW Reviews: HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Rocks HMAC
January 24, 2014
January 24, 2014
Director Dustin LeBlanc, Chad-Alan Carr and Lindsay Bretz-Morgan give area audiences a raucous, rocking HEDWIG and some of the best acting in the area.
BWW Reviews: Tchaikowsky's PIQUE DAME at Academy of Vocal Arts
January 24, 2014
January 24, 2014
Ghenady Meirson brings a condensed but not lacking production of Tchaikowsky's moody, Pushkin-inspired thriller to the AVA stage.
BWW Reviews: Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Is a Killer Production at York Little Theatre
January 21, 2014
January 21, 2014
Director Ken Bruggeman brings Christie's high-body-count mystery to YLT's Studio Theatre.
BWW Reviews: Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST At Gamut Classic Theatre
January 19, 2014
January 19, 2014
Karen Ruch and a talented veteran cast put on a staged reading of Wilde's classic comedy
BWW Reviews: Anthony Bidulka's A FLIGHT OF AQUAVIT
January 20, 2014
January 20, 2014
Saskatoon detective Russell Quant may be able to solve the matter of a blackmailer bothering an accountant, but can he solve the mystery of his mother's Christmas visit?
BWW Interviews: Tenor Dominick Chenes of Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia
January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014
The young Nevada tenor about to perform in PIQUE DAME talks with us about vocal training, exposing children to opera, and the Academy of Vocal Arts program.
BWW Reviews: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY Skewers the Great White Way at Majestic Theatre in Gettysburg
January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014
The Majestic Theatre's production of the FORBIDDEN BROADWAY revue brought warm approval on a cold, wet night from an audience happy to pole fun at Disney, Mackintosh, and Mormons
BWW Reviews: HONKY TONK ANGELS Take Center Stage at Dutch Apple
January 11, 2014
January 11, 2014
Lauren Sobon and a talented trio of women performers bring well-known country hits to the Dutch Apple stage.
BWW Critic's Choices: Best of 2013 in Central PA
December 30, 2013
December 30, 2013
Broadway World's annual roundup of critic favorites includes Central Pennsylvania theatres and performers
BWW Reviews: Jen Rudin's CONFESSIONS OF A CASTING DIRECTOR Explains What You Need to Get the Part
December 23, 2013
December 23, 2013
Casting director (and former performer) Jen Rubin lifts the lid off the trade secrets of actors she's hired for stage and screen, and shows how to land an audition... and the part
BWW Reviews: Rudi Azank's WHILE WAITING FOR GODOT - A Web Series of the Play Where Something Happens
December 23, 2013
December 23, 2013
In Azank's 2013 web series of Beckett's play, background and visual subtext make a great deal happen in the play where nothing happens
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