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: Alan Bradley's Eleven-Year-Old Detective Charms in THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE
October 24, 2013
October 24, 2013
Author Alan Bradley's Flavia de Luce is about to appear in a new novel; it's time to look over the origins of England's youngest scientific detective.
BWW Reviews: Revisiting Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant Series with AMUSE BOUCHE
October 24, 2013
October 24, 2013
Now in the midst of the new Adam Saint series, the veteran mystery author is the creator of one of the great gay PI's, Saskatoon's Russell Quant, whose series is in re-issue now
BWW Reviews: Evans' RITUALS Brings Detective Faye Longchamp Supernatural Mystery
October 24, 2013
October 24, 2013
Archaeologist Faye Longchamp digs up the truth about a Spiritualist community to solve a murder... and the origins of a not-so-alien object or two
BWW Reviews: THE WOMAN IN BLACK Spooks The Fulton Theatre Stage
October 23, 2013
October 23, 2013
Artistic Director Marc Robin brings a showy, spooky Halloween-season production of the perennially popular London horror Gothic to life in Lancaster
BWW Reviews: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS a Success at Dutch Apple
October 22, 2013
October 22, 2013
Director Dean Sobon and Pittsburgh's Trey Compton as Finch bring Dutch Apple a hilarious ride up the corporate ladder
BWW Reviews: ASSASSINS Slays the Audience at Ephrata Performing Arts Center
October 21, 2013
October 21, 2013
Artistic Director Ed Fernandez puts on a triumphant production of one of Stephen Sondheim's blackest musicals
BWW Reviews: WAIT UNTIL DARK Lights Up Allenberry Playhouse
October 21, 2013
October 21, 2013
Artistic Director Roque Berlanga gives Allenberry audiences a well-paced version of the classic thriller
BWW Reviews: Mark Stuart Presents STANDARD TIME World Premiere at Lancaster PA's Fulton Theatre
October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013
Choreographer Mark Stuart unveils his vision of social history in America through a spectacular combination of dance styles, with an eye to Broadway
BWW Reviews: The POPS' Viva Philadelphia! Celebrates Philly's Italian Musical Heritage
October 16, 2013
October 16, 2013
Maestro Michael Krajewski, Poperazzi, and Philadelphia's own Eddie Bruce celebrate everything from Mario Lanza to The Four Seasons, with dashes of Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and Paganini, for the opening of the POPS season
BWW Reviews: Carlisle Finds Its Grail in Hysterical SPAMALOT
October 16, 2013
October 16, 2013
Director Dustin LeBlanc and company sing, dance, and don't... spoil... their pants in a ridiculously funny production of a very serious show indeed
BWW Reviews: IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? At Susquehanna Stage Co.
October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013
Timothy Monaghan directs the classic collection of high school memories at Susquehanna Stage Co.
BWW Reviews: SONS OF MORIARTY Collects The Great Holmes Pastiches
October 9, 2013
October 9, 2013
Loren Estleman collects old favorites for fans of the Great Detective in a volume of short stories and novellas written by the literary heirs of Doyle and Watson
BWW Reviews: THE HARDEST THING is Hard-Boiled Noir from Cleis Press
October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013
James Lear adds to the LGBT mystery shelf with some seriously gritty traditional noir in a contemporary setting
BWW Reviews: GIDION'S KNOT An Intense Opening For Open Stage of Harrisburg Season
October 7, 2013
October 7, 2013
Donald Alsedek takes two actors and the audience through an intense session that raises more questions than it answers
BWW Reviews: A RED HERRING Infiltrates Villanova Theatre
October 5, 2013
October 5, 2013
Michael Holinger'sl comedy of criminal and romantic errors is onstage at Villanova through October 13
BWW Reviews: The Philadelphia Orchestra With Choral Beethoven and Muhly
October 5, 2013
October 5, 2013
Yannick conducts the Orchestra, massed choirs, and soloists (including award-winner Shenyang) in Beethoven's Ninth and a mass by Muhly
BWW Reviews: NABUCCO Opens Opera Philadelphia Season With A La Scala Recreation
October 2, 2013
October 2, 2013
Opera Philadelphia stages NABUCCO with 19th Century sets, and some 19th Century Italian political intrigue
BWW Reviews: York Little Theatre THE LITTLE MERMAID JR Is An Undersea Spectacular
September 25, 2013
September 25, 2013
Rene Staub takes a starry youth cast through an undersea fantasy world full of fun for children and adults
BWW Reviews: Oyster Mill's THE HOLLOW Is A Real Killer
September 23, 2013
September 23, 2013
Lois Heagy leads Agatha Christie's country-house murder mystery through twists, turns, and surprise visits from glamorous actresses
BWW Reviews: A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE Takes Allenberry To Early Nashville
September 20, 2013
September 20, 2013
Performer Nancy O'Bryan interprets the legendary singer who revolutionized women's place in country music and became a pop music legend as well
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