Piter Marek

Broadway Review: “Punch” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed on Sunday, November 2, 2025))

“You always step in,” Jacob Dunne (Will Harrison) tells us from the stage of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, explaining the code of the Meadows housing estate where loyalty means throwing fists without thinking. “Always. With a mate. No matter where, no matter what.” This philosophy—this toxic, tribal, inevitable logic—will cost James Hodgkinson his life in a single, unprovoked punch…

Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “Final Follies” at the Cherry Lane Theatre

October 4, 2018 | history, Off-Broadway > | "Final Follies", A.R. Gurney, Betsy Aidem, Cherry Lane Theatre, Colin Hanlon, Cory Pattak, David Murin, David Saint, Deborah Rush, Greg Mullavey, James Leynse, James Youmans, Mark Junek, Piter Marek, Primary Stages, Rachel Nicks, Scott Killian, Stephanie Klapper Casting

Given the long-term relationship that existed between A.R. Gurney and Primary Stages, it is befitting that the prolific playwright requested his agent to send his newest one act play “Final Follies” to the theater company for production in 2017. It turned out to be ominously and aptly titled since he passed soon after, leaving this to be the last play…