Peter Marks

Peter Marks (born 1954 or 1955) is an American journalist and theater critic. Marks was chief theater critic for The Washington Post from 2002 through 2023.

Early life Marks is from New York. His mother was a teacher. He also worked at The Star-Ledger and The Bergen Record.

At Newsday, he was part of the team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting for coverage of the 1991 Union Square derailment.

In 2002, Marks left the Times to join The Washington Post as chief theater critic.

Marks co-authored, with Valerie Hendy, American International Group CEO Bob Benmosche's 2016 memoir, Good for the Money.

He was co-host of the podcast Three on the Aisle with critics Terry Teachout and Elisabeth Vincentelli for American Theatre magazine, from 2017 until Teachout's death in early 2022. In April 2022, he and Vincentelli started a new podcast called Marks & Vincentelli.

In 2023, Marks took a buyout offered by the Post and left the newspaper at the end of that year.

Marks was honored with the 2024 Helen Hayes Tribute Award.