News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Marakay Rogers - Page 30

Marakay Rogers

 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: Tempesta di Mare's GREAT BOOKS Program is One for the Books
BWW Reviews: Tempesta di Mare's GREAT BOOKS Program is One for the Books
May 13, 2013

Gwyn Roberts and Richard Stone save their audience some reading time by letting them enjoy the musical versions of several literary classics.

BWW Interviews: Jessica Humphrey of Dutch Apple's CATS
BWW Interviews: Jessica Humphrey of Dutch Apple's CATS
May 11, 2013

She's a singer, a ballet dancer, and though only recently out of college she's been everything from a spirit in the Temple of Wisdom to a dame at sea. Jessica Humphrey talks about opera, CATS, and the current state of arts education.

BWW Reviews: 2013 FULTON FOLLIES Brings Back the Variety Show for a Cause
BWW Reviews: 2013 FULTON FOLLIES Brings Back the Variety Show for a Cause
May 6, 2013

The fourth annual auction and show grossed over $100,000 while entertaining the audience with local talents

BWW Reviews: Piffaro Goes BACK BEFORE BACH at 2013 Philadelphia Bach Festival
BWW Reviews: Piffaro Goes BACK BEFORE BACH at 2013 Philadelphia Bach Festival
May 6, 2013

The fourth concert of the 3013 Bach Festival presented the forerunners of J.S. Bach -- Praetorius, Lassus, Melchior Franck and Bach's own family.

BWW Reviews: EPAC Presents a Rollicking, Raunchy AVENUE Q
BWW Reviews: EPAC Presents a Rollicking, Raunchy AVENUE Q
May 3, 2013

Director Edward Fernandez and a well-trained cast of puppets and puppeteers bring the hit musical to hysterical life on the EPAC stage

BWW Reviews: NOAH Entertains in a Very Big Way at Sight and Sound
BWW Reviews: NOAH Entertains in a Very Big Way at Sight and Sound
May 1, 2013

If your taste runs to musical extravaganzas of giant proportions, nothing is bigger than Noah's Ark at Sight And Sound Theatre. It's wholesome, it's huge in all ways, and there's even an adorable dog.

BWW Reviews: Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Time Travel at PIFA to Swinging Sixties Spy Movie Music
BWW Reviews: Peter Nero and the Philly Pops Time Travel at PIFA to Swinging Sixties Spy Movie Music
April 30, 2013

The PIFA time travel theme took the Philly Pops to the birth of the James Bond film franchise... and beyond

BWW Reviews: DREAMGIRLS at the Fulton Theatre - A Dream of a Show
BWW Reviews: DREAMGIRLS at the Fulton Theatre - A Dream of a Show
April 27, 2013

Director Marc Robin dazzles audiences at the Fulton with the story of Deena Jones and the Dreams

BWW Reviews: A Visually Stunning MAGIC FLUTE at Opera Philadelphia
BWW Reviews: A Visually Stunning MAGIC FLUTE at Opera Philadelphia
April 25, 2013

The Diane Paulus/Canadian Opera production now at Opera Philadelphia dazzles the eye, if not always the ear

BWW Interviews: Sally Struthers to Visit 'Mother's' Totem Pole Playhouse in May
BWW Interviews: Sally Struthers to Visit 'Mother's' Totem Pole Playhouse in May
April 25, 2013

Sally Struthers of 'All in the Family' and 'Five Easy Pieces' fame comes to Totem Pole Playhouse in May, kicking off the summer season with SIMPLY SALLY STRUTHERS.

BWW Reviews: MOON OVER THE BREWERY Shines on Oyster Mill Playhouse
BWW Reviews: MOON OVER THE BREWERY Shines on Oyster Mill Playhouse
April 23, 2013

Oyster Mill presents a romantic comedy of mail carriers, encyclopedias, and an invisible Jay Gatsby, directed by Craig Stouffer

BWW Reviews: IN THE NEXT ROOM at Open Stage of Harrisburg Shines Light on History
BWW Reviews: IN THE NEXT ROOM at Open Stage of Harrisburg Shines Light on History
April 22, 2013

Open Stage and Don Alsedek present Sarah Ruhl's thought-provoking, woman-centered tale of the unfortunate history of female sexuality

BWW Reviews: A Riveting CABARET at York Little Theatre
BWW Reviews: A Riveting CABARET at York Little Theatre
April 20, 2013

Aaron Dalton directs an intense production of the Donmar/1998 revival version of the classic, with Chad-Alan Carr as a stellar Cumming-inspired Emcee

BWW Reviews: Villanova's SALOME - A Stunning Performance of an Underperformed Classic
BWW Reviews: Villanova's SALOME - A Stunning Performance of an Underperformed Classic
April 13, 2013

David Cregan directs a new translation of Wilde's classic in a performance that is literally 'up in the air'

BWW Interviews: The Circus Performers of PIPPIN, Part 2 - Viktoria Grimmy
BWW Interviews: The Circus Performers of PIPPIN, Part 2 - Viktoria Grimmy
April 12, 2013

The fifth generation circus performer talks about PIPPIN, family tradition, and what makes a proper circus

BWW Reviews: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Celebrates the Fall of the Berlin Wall at PIFA
BWW Reviews: Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Celebrates the Fall of the Berlin Wall at PIFA
April 11, 2013

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Conductor Laureate Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the Mendelssohn Club, and the Center for Emerging Visual Art paid tribute to one of the great events of modern history during the PIFA celebrations in a well-received performance of musical, vocal, and visual art

BWW Reviews: VAINGLORIOUS is Glorious Performance Art
BWW Reviews: VAINGLORIOUS is Glorious Performance Art
April 11, 2013

Meet Napoleon, Beethoven, and Madame de Stael in person at Applied Mechanics' PIFA offering commemorating the coronation of Napoleon. Wear your comfortable shoes and prepare to be invited for a drink before the Congress of Vienna hits.

BWW Reviews: Bernstein's MASS at Penn State a Monumental Undertaking and a Giant Performance
BWW Reviews: Bernstein's MASS at Penn State a Monumental Undertaking and a Giant Performance
April 9, 2013

The fiftieth anniversary of the College of Arts and Architecture was celebrated in style with a major production of the celebrated (and sometimes excoriated) 'theatre piece'

BWW Interviews: The Circus Performers Of PIPPIN, Part I - Orion Griffiths
BWW Interviews: The Circus Performers Of PIPPIN, Part I - Orion Griffiths
April 4, 2013

The veteran English circus performer (and Sardine) reflecs on growing up in the circus and running away to join the theatre

BWW Reviews: Vote For A CANDIDATE FOR MURDER at Allenberry Resort and Playhouse
BWW Reviews: Vote For A CANDIDATE FOR MURDER at Allenberry Resort and Playhouse
April 4, 2013

Allenberry's 2012-2013 Murder Mystery Weekend offering taps America's political vein, though it never goes for the jugular, just for laughs. Nonetheless, it could be a killer weekend getaway.



  …       30        34   




Videos