350 stories by "Doug Marino"
Part of the annual Brits Off-Broadway Festival that runs at 59E59 Theaters each year, The Door, by Tony Earnshaw, is a quick-paced, 50-minute, mystery and tension filled play about two men a…
Short plays about gay marriage playing in the West Village in NYC. The moment I heard about it I thought, "Not likely to have an un-sympathetic ear in the audience". Truth be to…
The latest installment in the category of new musicals is taking aim Broadway this month. Bonnie & Clyde takes up residence at the Schoenfeld Theatre and is aiming for a bulls-eye …
If there's an off-Broadway play you should see this season, add Thomas Higgins' thought provoking, contemporary new work, Wild Animals You Should Know, to your list. The play is not an…
I tend to agree with Roma a lot. When I say Roma, I assume you all know that I mean Roma Torre of NY1. She's a bell-weather theater critic who tells it like it is and avoids most…
Theresa Rebeck's new play on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, Seminar, is a witty, sharp, and intelligent comedy about writers - specifically 4 up-and-coming fiction writers who hire a world-…
Stephen Karam got his start in the deep dark chambers of the Roundabout Underground at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (i love saying that m…
Noel Coward is back on Broadway with his delightfully light and fun, Private Lives. Despite its length (3 full old-fashioned acts for those of you who want to catch the 10:45 train to …
I originally reviewed the December 2010 Lincoln Center Theatre production at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre and my review can be found here. An instantly popular commodity, the play, by J…
Architects and designers will tell you this all the time - not everything that looks good on paper translates well when actually constructed. 2ST has tried to breathe new and ma…
If anyone had told me a year ago that I'd be going to see a play half in Chinese on Broadway I might have fallen off my chair laughing. Broadway doesn't do foreign language plays, does…
An intellectual, interesting, and engaging play, Venus in Fur, by David Ives is now playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Featured just last se…
A potent new play, Milk like Sugar, by Kirsten Greenidge is now running at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons thru November 20th. Sharp, honest dialogue, a stinging an…
Quite possibly the worst play of the season on Broadway. Quite possibly the best cast of the season on Broadway. Katori Hall's new play is imaginative and entertaining, but not B…
A new play by Nicky Silver, The Lyons, strikes a bitter and bitingly funny tone that all too many dysfunctional families will likely recognize. Never known for his innocuous dialogue o…
The Adaptations Project is presenting a powerful work based on the poem of the same name, Kaddish, by Allen Ginsberg in the small theatre attached to the main stage at the New York Theatre W…
Some quick research tells me that these three one-act gems came together around the one that Woody Allen wrote. The umbrella title, Relatively Speaking, refers to the concept of famil…
Nothing like a great big group of talented, energetic and uber-adorable 20-somethings from Texas on a New York stage having the time of their collective lives to make you feel really old. &n…
Ironic that just two days ago I saw a another off-Broadway play in which a wealthy wall-street type was driven to self-destruction. The plot was certainly a different time and place bu…
As I was leaving Adam Rapp's new play being presented by the Atlantic Theater Company at the Classic Stage Company's stage while they undergo a major renovation project on their own stage in…
Itamar Moses strikes gold again. This time, on 42nd Street at Playwrights Horizons with his latest contemporary work, Completeness. Mr. Moses has demonstrated his contemporary ta…
The Roundabout Theatre Company has done it again. A powerhouse cast, a delightful and lightly operatic score atop a simple and enchanting book are just a few of the rewards that are aw…
The sub-headline for this post should be "Between Follies". That's because Jan Maxwell helms this heady, intelligent, no-small-undertaking of a play - in-between her Follies DC run and…
I wanted it to be great. I really did. I wanted to walk away from the theater soaking wet - like someone opened a musical theatre fire hydrant all over me in the audience on a ho…
