350 stories by "Doug Marino"
Spaceship crashes on Earth. Voca People emerge. They need Ener-gia to power up to get back home. Moo-see-ca is Ener-gia. Get it? Lior Kalfo and Shai Fishman, creators…
Tyne Daly? I don't know what you are talking about. I saw a show with Maria Callas in the flesh. No? I could have sworn....Tyne Daly takes command of the stage at 8:07pm an…
Zarkana - It's what Jack Murphy and Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland dreamed [but couldn't afford] of being on Broadway. It's what Julie Taymor and Bono wished their musically-boring, lackl…
Zack Braff's new play, All New People, feels more like an episode of Scrubs than an evening in the theatre. Don't get me wrong - it was pretty good - certainly well acted - but …
Down Payment Productions' play, Yes We Can, a new New York Play, by Daniella Shoshaun, is indeed chock full of issues. Perhaps, dare I say, even too many. Ten actors enthusiastic…
"Fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. Prepare to be mezmerized, electrified, and transported to another time and place for the next two hours" is what the pre-show announcement…
A wholesale waste of time at the Union Square Theatre. The house was virtually empty. I knew this wasn't going to be a good sign. It only got worse from there.Written as a …
Too Cliche? Maybe. Another installment in the "thou shalt never forget" series? Perhaps. Delightfully entertaining? Absolutely. In any other season, I th…
Michael Weller wrote two plays back to back in 2007. I saw Fifty Words at the Lortel then and just this week, the follow-up play, Side Effects, in the same (dumpy) theater. …
Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham take a walk down Twenty-Something Lane with their fresh, new gen-X musical. Well, of course they do, the are twenty-something themselves and if I had…
Tony Kusher's much anticipated new work is fantastically engrossing, scintillatingly intellectual, and mentally exhausting - all at the same time. From minute 1 to minute 210 (that's …
Lab productions don't and shouldn't get reviews. What they should get is encouragement and word of mouth. Here are some words and they came out of my mouth.Genuine.Personal.Hones…
When I first googled this show to see what the heck it was all about, I came across a few articles that listed the cast and creatives - nothing unusual. Then I noticed the name Philip…
Let's get one thing perfectly clear - the music of the real-life group, The Shaggs, is confoundedly awful. Yes, awful. If you don't believe me, take a listen. The other thing tha…
OK, so we won't call this theatre, exactly. It's one of those delicious treats that visits a stage every now and again - a musical review, an homage to a great one, a thoroughly entert…
The 2011 Patrick Lee ITBA Award Winners: OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICALBloody Bloody Andrew JacksonOUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAYJerusalemOUTSTANDING BROADWAY MUSICAL REVIVALAnything GoesOU…
An evening of sheer musical hilarity and pure naughty fun! Andrew Byrne has penned a new and fresh (and I'd say better) version of a prior musical parody, Forbidden Broadway. Unl…
Although a fully staged production, it appeared to me to be nothing more than an enhanced concert version of Stephen Sondheim's luxurious score at the Eisenhower Theater at the Kennedy Cente…
One thing that is not a lie is that this show is one of the best off-Broadway productions that I have seen in a very long time. I'm not very high-brow, so I went in thinking Moliere +…
The life-story of Larry Kramer, AIDS activist, author and playwright, finally makes it to Broadway - a late, but welcome addition to the spring season. Having had several off-Broadway …
John Guare just had a grand Broadway run with latest work, A Free Man of Color. Now he's back on Broadway with one if his his first works, The House of Blue Leaves. Despite the …
Upfront I will recognize the fine performances by all the actors - Mark Blum, Tom Lipinski, Michael Stahl-David, Liz Stauber, and even Donna Hanover too! The fine acting notwithstandi…
Lynn Nottage has penned a unique and clever work now being performed at Second Stage Theatre. The play takes place in two distinct parts - Act I in 1933 and Act II 1973/2003 involving…
If you're in the mood for a night of good, clean, innocent fun - Sister Act at the Broadway Theatre has just what you've been looking for. By the way, don't run out and rent the movie.…
Michael Frayn's play, Benefactors, is a gripping, poignant, and dramatic new work now playing off-Broadway at Theatre Row on 42nd Street. You might recognize another of his hit-plays, …
