Peter Marks is a staff writer for the Washington Post and has been the paper’s chief theater critic since 2002. Prior to that, he was a reporter and theater critic for 10 years for The New York Times.
His positions at the Times included a stint as a national correspondent, covering the 2000 Presidential campaign. Before that, he was a reporter and feature writer for Newsday, after stints at the Newark Star-Ledger and other New Jersey newspapers.
In 1992, he was on a team of Newsday reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, for coverage of a New York subway crash.
He is a co-author with the late AIG CEO Bob Benmosche of the 2016 memoir, Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America, the story of Benmosche’s life, culminating in his successful revitalization of an insurance giant hobbled by the 2008 financial crisis. His writings have appeared in a variety of other American publications, and for several years he taught theater criticism in the honors program at George Washington University.
He is co-host of the theater podcast Three on the Aisle, with critics Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal and Elisabeth Vincentelli, a contributor to the New York Times. A graduate of Yale, he lives in Manhattan with his wife, Valerie.
Sessions in which Peter Marks participates
- Spreading the Word New York Hilton Midtown - Nassau Room
- 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | 1 hour
- How do Broadway and off-Broadway shows capture your attention? Peter Marks, chief theatre critic for the Washington Post, moderates this pa...
- Panel
- Three On The Aisle: Live Show New York Hilton Midtown - Regent Room
- 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 30 minutes
- Twice a month, theatre critics Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal; Elisabeth Vincentelli, contributor to The New York Times an...
- Podcast