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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 Interview: Whitney Hayes of Dutch Apple's MENOPAUSE
BWW Interview: Whitney Hayes of Dutch Apple's MENOPAUSE
April 1, 2016

Pittsburgh native Whitney Hayes plays a business executive with brain fog in Dutch Apple's MENOPAUSE. It's a part she's made her own.

BWW Review: NANA'S NAUGHTY KNICKERS Is Back Home at Rainbow
BWW Review: NANA'S NAUGHTY KNICKERS Is Back Home at Rainbow
March 25, 2016

Katy DiSavino's first play, one of the funniest around, is back where it was first staged, at the DiSavinos' home base, Rainbow's Comedy Playhouse. Prepare to be entertained.

BWW Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at The Fulton - The Truth Is, You'll Laugh
BWW Review: JACK AND THE BEANSTALK at The Fulton - The Truth Is, You'll Laugh
March 21, 2016

The touching love story of a boy and his cow, with a Mysterious Man, a Giant, Ogra the Giant's wife, and more jokes than legally allowed. The fun? You can't handle the fun.

BWW Review: THE HEIRESS Inherits the EPAC Stage
BWW Review: THE HEIRESS Inherits the EPAC Stage
March 21, 2016

A classic Henry James novel became a classic Broadway drama, now on stage at EPAC.

BWW Review: HSC's THE SEAGULL Soars At Gamut
BWW Review: HSC's THE SEAGULL Soars At Gamut
March 20, 2016

Director Thomas Weaver takes the audience through a winding story of Russian angst that's in many ways as contemporary as modern reality television.

BWW Review: THE IRISH... AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY... at Seventh Sister
BWW Review: THE IRISH... AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY... at Seventh Sister
March 19, 2016

Singing! Dancing! Playing the washboard! Joy, mirth, and the Great Potato Famine mingle with the Civil War and coal strikes in Frank McCourt's classic revue

BWW Cooks: Food Hacks For The Win
BWW Cooks: Food Hacks For The Win
March 19, 2016

Waffle irons. Ice cube trays. That old bottle of French dressing in the back of your cupboard. They could make your cooking easier and more fun.

BWW Review: ADVENTURES OF A BUXOM BLONDE by Demetria Daniels
BWW Review: ADVENTURES OF A BUXOM BLONDE by Demetria Daniels
March 18, 2016

Blogger and playwright Demetria Daniels has followed the traditional advice to write about what she knows -- and what she knows is meeting celebrities.

BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Brings Laughs to Oyster Mill
BWW Review: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS Brings Laughs to Oyster Mill
March 17, 2016

The play that made James Corden an American commodity is at Oyster Mill to prove to you whether it's just as funny as you heard it was -- and chances are, it is.

BWW Review: EMBRACEABLE YOU Brings Gershwin Revival to Servant Stage Company
BWW Review: EMBRACEABLE YOU Brings Gershwin Revival to Servant Stage Company
March 11, 2016

Director Daniel Stargel, music director Andy Roberts and a group of the area's better-known actors who sing and singers who act bring Gershwin live on stage for all generations.

BWW Review: THE TAFFETAS Bring the Fifties to YLT
BWW Review: THE TAFFETAS Bring the Fifties to YLT
March 11, 2016

The sister act girl group from Muncie Indiana makes its first TV appearance,,, on the York Little Theatre stage. Prepare to hear the greatest hits of the Fifties from some of the great singers of the YLT stage.

BWW Review: SISTER ACT Blesses The Fulton Stage
BWW Review: SISTER ACT Blesses The Fulton Stage
March 9, 2016

SISTER ACT is at the Fulton Theatre. It's big, it's brassy, and it's a blessing to have it on stage here.

BWW Cooks: The Great Parmesan Scandal of 2016
BWW Cooks: The Great Parmesan Scandal of 2016
March 8, 2016

Is your jar of Parmesan cheese adulterated? Why do you even own a jar of Parmesan? What you need to know about your Parmesan cheese.

BWW Cooks: The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Question
BWW Cooks: The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Question
March 1, 2016

Extra virgin olive oil is now the default oil of many cooks, but is it the oil you want for what you're cooking?

BWW Review: Brilliant OTHER DESERT CITIES at The Fulton
BWW Review: Brilliant OTHER DESERT CITIES at The Fulton
February 23, 2016

The Jon Robin Baitz story of family dysfunction in the wealthy Republican enclaves of Palm Springs gets an intimate and brilliantly performed production at the Fulton's Studio Theatre.

BWW Cooks: Know Your Tuna (and Love It Canned, Too)
BWW Cooks: Know Your Tuna (and Love It Canned, Too)
February 22, 2016

What's bluefin? What's yellowfin? Does it have mercury in it? And can I admit I love tuna salad sandwiches more than seared ahi? Learn to know and love your tuna.

BWW Interview: Craig Smith and Theresa Walker of CLUE
BWW Interview: Craig Smith and Theresa Walker of CLUE
February 18, 2016

CLUE is at Dutch Apple. Mrs. White and Mr. Green reveal secrets of the musical murder mystery, and of the couple's favorite shows together -- off stage, when they're not up to their necks in murder, they're engaged.

BWW Review: A WONDERFUL NOISE Is a Wonderful Time
BWW Review: A WONDERFUL NOISE Is a Wonderful Time
February 18, 2016

Harriet Power directs Michael Hollinger's musical about men, women, and barbershop quartets. It's noisy, all right, and plenty of fun.

BWW Cooks: The Magic of Pasta Water
BWW Cooks: The Magic of Pasta Water
February 17, 2016

The water from boiling pasta has more uses than you;d imagine. Don't waste the culinary gift that it is.

BWW Review: TWO TRAINS RUNNING Smoothly at Open Stage
BWW Review: TWO TRAINS RUNNING Smoothly at Open Stage
February 14, 2016

The 1969 installment of August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle makes its mark at Open Stage, with Aaron Bomar leading a great cast.



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