350 stories by "Doug Marino"
Alexander Dinelaris' new play has taken a few years to make it to New York and it's pretty clear why you won't be seeing this one any time soon again. It's wordy, over-indulgent, a bit…
I'm frankly a bit confused by Lisa D'Amour's new play being presented over at Playwrights Horizons. It's seemingly missing a soul or at least one that director, Anne Kauffman failed to…
Chad Beguelin's new play is delightful. A gay couple unexpectedly come upon a turning point in their relationship. Which road will they choose? It may not be the one you th…
Summer is the perfect time for a silly romp on Broadway. Although I always regret not seeing things early in their run when they are more fresh and the audience is more of a "Broadway …
A coming of age story (that's what we used to call bullying) of both boys and girls. Tough. Brutal. Honest. Powerful. Joe Mantello and Christopher Gattelli brin…
Eh.
John Patrick Shanley's new work is a powder-keg. The third and final work in his trilogy that started with Doubt, continued with Defiance, now ends with Storefront Church. (One w…
Sometimes a play off-off Broadway is a powerhouse production, a tour-de-force, a watershed event. Tiffany Antone's In the Company of Jane Doe is not one of those events.It's not that t…
Off-off Broadway can be one of the best grounds for exciting, ground-breaking, and intellectually stimulating new works and Mark Ravenhill's new work, pool (no water), is no exception. …
A rare revival of Mary Chase's delightful and humorous Harvey is just beginning in the summer-slot at the Roundabout Theatre Company over at Studio 54. The adorable and perfectly talent…
Amy Herzog's play is receiving an extended chance at capturing hearts 8 times every week downstairs at the Mitzi Newhouse E.Theatre at Lincoln Center. A tender and pensive work, the pla…
Quite possibly one of the most engrossing, unique, emotionally charged plays of the season. Throw away all your theatrical pretense and spend 90 minutes immersed in a battle over John.…
I went for another peak inside the development lab of a new work over at the Vineyard Theatre. Rule #1 - Thou shalt not blog about a work in process. Rule #2 - Enjoy yourself. &n…
What could have been a riveting barn-burner and some fierce competition for the much-hyped Cock over The Duke turns out to be a brush-fire that smolders about 25-30 minutes longer than it sh…
Sometimes it takes just one diamond to make a musical sparkle - and Encores! final installment of the 2012 season has several. With a cornball book by Loos and Fields, silly lyrics by …
Do not adjust your browser. This is indeed my site. I'm doing something a little different on Sunday night. I will be blogging LIVE from The 27th Annual Lucille Lortel Awar…
You'll certainly not be lonely in the cozy Theatre @ 43rd Street watching Paul Weitz' world premier comedy at Second Stage but you may be tad bored after about an hour or so. The strik…
The City Club has great potential. Of the five major factors that go into that statement - it lacks in only one area - and that one area is one that can easily be fixed. Music &…
John Lithgow was born to play roles such as this one in David Auburn's new play, The Columnist, having its world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. Mr. Lithgow, along a cast of superb…
In opening this review, I take note that I cannot find a show banner icon that does not have Raul Esparza's name atop the title. Clearly the producers are hanging t…
What a romp over at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre! Penned as the sequel to Boeing Boeing, Marc Camoletti has extended the comical farce of his original story a…
As director and choreographer, Kathleen Marshall helms this delicious and tuneful musical comedy at the Imperial Theatre this spring. The concept - cobble together some of the best George an…
Creators Tom Salamon and Betsy Salamon-Sufott are going strong after many seasons - sending their agents (that's you, the audience) out on the street to deliver tickets to a network of "asso…
This is quite possibly the worst show to debut on Broadway that I have ever seen. Let me be clear, it is not because the actors didn't know their lines - on the contrary - they were qu…
Quite possibly the most star-studded success story ever to grace the Broadway stage. Gore Vidal's The Best Man has been resurrected once again in an election year where it seems that, …
