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Marakay Rogers

 America's most uncoordinated childhood ballet and tap student before discovering that her talents were music and writing, Marakay Rogers finally traded in her violin for law school when she realized that she might make more money in law than she did performing with the Potomac Symphony and in orchestra pits around the mid-Atlantic. Unfortunately, she forgot to factor in the student loan repayments! She has never recovered from being chewed out by Terrence Mann in public for hanging up her bow. 


A graduate of Wilson College (PA), Marakay is also a writer, film reviewer and interviewer. Additionally, as of 2014, she serves as vice-chair of the Advisory Board of the Beaux Arts Society, Inc. and is a member of GALECA. 


She's also taught college-level communications, writing, theatre criticism and English literature classes, has received multiple writing awards  for several small-press novels, and is listed in Marquis' "Who's Who in America".  She has done additional post-collegiate English and drama studies coursework with Open University (UK) in drama and literature.


Her junior high English teacher was Broadway star Katrina Yaukey's mother, Kay Yaukey.  (Her high school math teacher was Ordean Yaukey, Katrina Yaukey's father, but between Marakay's mother, an editor, and Katrina's mother, English won out.) Marakay is senior theatre critic for Central Pennsylvania and a senior editor for BWWBooksWorld as well as a classical music reviewer. In her free time, Marakay practices law and often gets it right.



 


 


 






BWW Review: PHANTOM Dazzles At Dutch Apple
BWW Review: PHANTOM Dazzles At Dutch Apple
August 27, 2016

Don't mistake Yeston and Kopit's PHANTOM for the show on Broadway. It's smaller, smarter, and in this production, better. You'll get your boat, your chandelier, and some real human depth.

BWW Feature: SWEENEY TODD Star Sarah Rice Returns to Solo Cabaret
BWW Feature: SWEENEY TODD Star Sarah Rice Returns to Solo Cabaret
August 22, 2016

Broadway and opera performer and multiple award winner Sarah Rice is in her first solo cabaret act since 2013 -- with a pianist, David Vernon, and her Theremin all at her side.

BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Could Be 'the Time of Your Life' at EPAC
BWW Review: AMERICAN IDIOT Could Be 'the Time of Your Life' at EPAC
August 3, 2016

Green Day's classic rock opera takes to the stage, from Jingletown to the city, from beer swilling to heroin chic, and back agaiin.

BWW Review: Dutch Apple Soars Along With MARY POPPINS
BWW Review: Dutch Apple Soars Along With MARY POPPINS
July 19, 2016

Ryan Gibbs brings the Broadway version of the Disney classic to the Dutch Apple stage. Fly away into fantasy with everyone's favorite nanny, Mary Poppins.

BWW Review: SHREK at the Fulton Delivers Fun Life Lessons
BWW Review: SHREK at the Fulton Delivers Fun Life Lessons
July 8, 2016

Randall Frizado directs a short, fun-filled version of the children's production of SHREK: THE MUSICAL with a top-notch veteran Shrek and Donkey pair.

BWW Review: Everybody Cut FOOTLOOSE at the Fulton
BWW Review: Everybody Cut FOOTLOOSE at the Fulton
June 17, 2016

Marc Robin and Samantha Hewes-Cramer bring the movie to life on the Fulton stage. Kevin Bacon may not be dancing through a warehouse, but there's still a lot going on, dancing and otherwise, in Bomont.

BWW Review: EPAC Shines With VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
BWW Review: EPAC Shines With VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
June 17, 2016

Pat Kautter directs playwritght/actor Christopher Durang's comedy of three siblings who don't quite respect each other. But weren't they all warned to beware of the mysterious Hootie Pie?

BWW Review: THE BURNING MAN at Oyster Mill Playhouse
BWW Review: THE BURNING MAN at Oyster Mill Playhouse
June 10, 2016

It's not a summer festival in Nevada. It's not just THE MOUSETRAP in a new setting. It's not quite what you expect.

BWW Review: PORTRAIT OF A LADY: DIANA at Lancaster Trust
BWW Review: PORTRAIT OF A LADY: DIANA at Lancaster Trust
June 5, 2016

Reji Woods opens his second series of the diva tributes with a Diana Ross super-night.

BWW Review: OLD TIME RADIO GOSPEL HOUR Swings Servant Stage Company
BWW Review: OLD TIME RADIO GOSPEL HOUR Swings Servant Stage Company
June 5, 2016

Bluegrass, barbershop, hymns, children's songs -- they're all here, and all 'live on radio' in front of you. Prepare for foot-tapping fun.

BWW Interview: Reji Woods, Portrait of an Actor/Cabaret Producer
BWW Interview: Reji Woods, Portrait of an Actor/Cabaret Producer
May 29, 2016

Reji Woods, a Lancaster area stage and song fixture, has a full plate this summer, with his PORTRAIT OF A LADY series and two summer shows in Philadelphia and Vermont. He talks about producing and performing at the same time.

BWW Review: OrangeMite Studios Is Doing the Best Shakespeare You Haven't Seen
BWW Review: OrangeMite Studios Is Doing the Best Shakespeare You Haven't Seen
May 28, 2016

Artistic director William Wolfgang runs an ambitious schedule for a community theatre: all Shakespeare, all the time. Area theatre veterans pitch in with high school students to make a barn in Dover the most happening place in the region.

BWW Review: THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE Is Homage To The Thirties
BWW Review: THERAPY FOR A VAMPIRE Is Homage To The Thirties
June 9, 2016

It's lush, it's beautiful, it's darkly, evilly funny, and it's the best vampire film out right now. Vienna in the 1930s has never looked better or been deadlier.

BWW Review: MARK OF THE WITCH Has Italian Flair But Thin Plot, Acting
BWW Review: MARK OF THE WITCH Has Italian Flair But Thin Plot, Acting
May 27, 2016

What starts as an homage to Dario Argento ends weakly, with style victorious over substance. Unlike its inspiration, it doesn't all hang together.

BWW Recap: Thoughts on THE BLACKLIST Season Three Finale
BWW Recap: Thoughts on THE BLACKLIST Season Three Finale
May 20, 2016

Tom and Agnes are kidnapped, Red doesn't get his target, Ressler and Mr. Kaplan admit mistakes, Liz is alive, and Alexander Kirk is WHO?

BWW Review: ALMOST HOLY is Challenging Look at Vigilante Priest in Ukraine
BWW Review: ALMOST HOLY is Challenging Look at Vigilante Priest in Ukraine
May 19, 2016

Ghenadiy is your typical Russian Orthodox priest. With boxing gloves, a van, and midnight raids on drug houses, where he kidnaps the children hanging in them. Is this any way to run a children's charity? He thinks so. Do we?

BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Has a Whole Lotta Music Going at Dutch Apple
BWW Review: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Has a Whole Lotta Music Going at Dutch Apple
May 17, 2016

Rockabilly, country, and blues fans, rejoice. Elvis fans, look sharp. The greatest recording event in history is happening at Dutch Apple through June 19, and you can be there.

BWW Recap: 'Alexander Kirk' Creates Very Strange Bedfellows on THE BLACKLIST
BWW Recap: 'Alexander Kirk' Creates Very Strange Bedfellows on THE BLACKLIST
May 13, 2016

Is the best way to find a Russian criminal to steal a Presidential candidate's entire campaign account? Raymond Reddington and Scottie Hargrave (Famke Janssen) think so, and Tom Keen wants to help. The FBI isn't so sure, especially when it turns out that the FBI's in charge of the robbery.

BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a Catch at Rainbow
BWW Review: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is a Catch at Rainbow
May 11, 2016

The show that gave birth to bumbling detectives in ternchcoats is alive, well, and on stage at Rainbow's Comedy Playhouse. Catch it if you can.

BWW Review: Gritty, Solid CUCKOO'S NEST at York Little Theatre
BWW Review: Gritty, Solid CUCKOO'S NEST at York Little Theatre
May 7, 2016

It's not a pretty show but it's one of the most compelling in theatre, and solid direction and casting make it a thought-provoking drama. York Little Theatre does it right.



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