350 stories by "Doug Marino"
Off-Broadway plays, in my humble opinion, will always be a more visceral, poignant, and biting experience than their bigger siblings on the Great White Way. Why? Because they can…
When a play succeeds in telling a political and social history of another people, you leave the theater with a deeper appreciation of the world around you. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has pe…
As its namesake suggests - Second Stage Theater has given a second chance to a first rate off-Broadway production, Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy, originally seen last sea…
When I returned home from this play I was satiated. However, In order to not feel like an idiot, I had to something I almost never do - read the other reviews. Why you might ask?…
With a blockbuster holiday movie on the horizon in just a few days, I am once again bewildered by Roundabout Theater Company's decisions to put plays on the stage. But despite the…
A rockin' live Jazz band on stage, cool-as-cats vocalists, and a wildly true story about the first un-segregated Jazz club in New York City are the ingredients in this impressive walk down m…
For 80 minutes on a Broadway stage, Roland (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Marianne (Ruth Wilson) manage to thoroughly engage you in a pastiche of possibilities, multiple dimensions of the universe, u…
There's a new play on at Playwrights Horizons and it has a little bit of sexy-star-sizzle. The always adorable and boyishly handsome T.R. Knight (Eddie) takes the helm of Samuel …
A force to be reckoned with, Ayad Akhtar has penned yet another powerful drama now playing out on the stage at New York Theatre Workshop. He's currently on Broadway representing his Pu…
A new play by Robert Callely had its debut over at 59E59 Theaters. I always enjoy seeing different things over on the east side in the intimate theaters. The productions that gra…
A. R. Gurney admits it right up front in his script - "This is a play, or rather a sort-of-a-play, which needs no theatre, no lengthy rehearsal, no special set, no memorization of lines, and…
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's stale and dated play is currently exploding (literally) on stage at the Longacre Theatre in a 3rd Broadway revival since it was written in 1936. This …
Just when you thought all the original ideas have dried up and creativity has gone the way of the Ford Packard, along comes Hunter Bell & Lee Overtree (Book) and Eli Bolin (Music and Lyr…
What we have here is one of the most realistic and naturally constructed plays I have seen in a long while. Heidi Schreck writes like people speak, and think, and wonder. Kip Fag…
Tom Stoppard is certainly on a roll. He, like his compadre Terrence McNally, has two plays running concurrently, in this case, both at the Roundabout Theatre Company. His la…
I have to say I was a bit lost at Lost Lake. For it's first ever public performance, the actors were remarkable. They writing was as natural and fluid as possible. Wh…
What a magical time on and off Broadway for Terrence McNally. Three of his shows - two now running concurrently (Lips, It's Only a Play) and one that just closed (Mothers & Sons) a…
The effect is jarring. The result is jarring. Nothing about Ivo Van Hove's re-imagination of Ingmar Bergman's already jolting TV mini-series and later screenplay involves bliss a…
This play had good intentions. I wanted to like it. I really did. Especially starting the uber adorable Vincent Kartheiser (Billy Wilder). But it wasn't. And he wasn'…
What's going on over at the Lyceum is nothing short of theatrical excellence. New, fresh, culturally relevant theatre is what Disgraced, a new Pulitzer prize winning drama by Ayad Akht…
The indomitable and erudite Tom Stoppard is making a big splash both on and off Broadway this season. The first installment of him is being presented at the Laura Pels Theater by Round…
It may be just what Broadway needs right now - a lavish, classic, good-'ol song and dance show on the great white way. Betty Comden and Adolph Green's classic with music by the incompa…
A dazzling, innovate, and entirely engrossing production by Simon Stephens is making a splash on Broadway this fall while still running their award-winning production in London's West End. &…
A new play just arrived on Broadway courtesy of Manhattan Theatre Club and award winning playwright Donald Margulies. It's a dash of classic play, a dash of naughty, and a dash of funny. &nb…
I get it. Cutting-edge theatre, young hot actors, minor (or not-so-minor) indiscretions, drugs and, of course, sex. What more could you ask for in a smart-off Broadway production…
