350 stories by "Doug Marino"
Currently running its national tour, I caught Bring It On during its stop in Chicago. Part gymnastic cheerleading spectacle, part disney-esque youthful heartwarming story, the show is …
A delicious meal is being served up at Playwrights Horizons upstairs in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Dan LeFranc's new play is about life, or more appropriately life - fast forward - &…
Choreography. Nice work if you can get it. Even nicer if you are Geoffrey Doig-Marx and your brush has been selected to paint the dance-canvas on stage for the Department of Thea…
As it seems is customary, egomaniac, Edward Albee has not only placed his name in the title of his play but also put his picture on the playbill cover. He's like the Donald Trump of th…
Playwright LeslyeHeadland is likely good at a minimumof four things: grammar, being anassistant, reading people, and writing plays. Each of these traits is quite obvious from a br…
John Osborne's 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, has been staged in London on the West End and subsequently on Broadway - both to a rather cool, if not frigid reception. Movie versio…
Paula Vogel's award-winning 1997 play is receiving its first professional production since it premiered 15 years ago at the Vineyard Theater. Second Stage Theatre …
It's hard to describe this amazing work - it's part film, part live performance art, part experimental theatre. It harkens back to the days of Andy Warhol and one of his avant-ga…
Re-imagined. Re-invented. Resurrected. Remarkable!OK, so i have never seen the cult movie (shame on me, i know). I also didn't get to see the prior incarnation on Bro…
A power-packed, "Ripped From The Headlines" new play by emerging playwright, Gabe McKinley, is now playing at the Peter Norton Space on way-West 42nd Street. This i…
The Animus Theatre Company is presenting a fantastic stylized work, Where's My Money, by playwright John Patrick Shanley. An homage to the Film-Noir style in the cinema, this stage pro…
A play about cancer and dying is probably not something that is first on your uplifting winter "must see" list. But don't click the back button on your browser just yet. Attentio…
Maybe Naked Angels has the idea first? But in a Broadway season that already contains a very funny Chinese-culture play, I'm not sure why the Vineyard chose this time to mount Outside …
What a delightful and entertaining way to start off the new year - and it wasn't a big budget Broadway musical with 17 stars flying around the theatre! LEO, the brain-child of To…
To the delight of every audience member, the orchestra at the Richard Rogers Theatre roars to life from the first bar of the George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's luxuriou…
An old fashioned play and a top-notch actress take center stage at the American Airlines Theatre at the Roundabout Theatre Company this winter. Athol Fugard's The Road To Mecca i…
Molly Smith Metzler is an award winning playwright from Brooklyn and she's written a charmer that is now being presented at Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) on the small stage at NY City Center.…
Everything about Burning, Thomas Bradshaw's new play, is less like a flaming tinderbox and much more like the wet smoldering ashes of a rained out campfire. The painful 3 hours in the …
Andrew Hinderaker, a fresh, young playwright is having his moment in the spotlight. Specifically, the spotlight several times a week in the Roundabout Theater Company's New Play …
It began with $6,000 from a Kickstarter campaign this past summer, raised to bring this new musical parody to the stage at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). Sold-out and ex…
What's that sound? I think it's Walter Kerr turning over in his grave. I've been disappointed on Broadway before and I'm sure I will again.Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn ha…
Jordan Harrison's fantastic new play, Maple and Vine, being produced at Playwrights Horizons this season is storytelling at its absolute best! Are you a tired, stressed-out, overworked…
Just because the seats are a little uncomfortable or the location is slightly off the beaten path, don't miss a wonderful opportunity to see the re-imagination of 5 classic fairy tales unfol…
I can't say I'm a huge fan of "the classics". But occasionally, I do know it's good to see some of them to expand one's horizons. And there's one theatre, aptly named, in town th…
Anyone can put money into a Broadway show. I won't begrudge them that. I did. So what? Well, the difference is that my name is not obnoxiously pushed in everyone's f…
