photographer, Laura Marie Duncan
“A significant musical theater talent.”
Stephen Holden, NY TIMES (NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY)
“It’s a joy from start to finish,” Jeremy Chapman, Musical Theatre Review, January 25, 2014 (NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY)
“Cohen creates an engaging score and does well in expanding film’s exploration of yearning, sexual confusion and human connections.”
Frank Rizzo, VARIETY (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX)
“His music ranges widely through jazz, love ballads, waltzes, patter songs and homages to Sondheim without losing its own individuality.”
Markland Taylor, VARIETY (NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY)
“Mr. Cohen’s score is a reassuring fusion, a mastery of traditional musical comedy style adorning and informing an offbeat story.”
Alvin Klein, THE NY TIMES (NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY)
“Cohen’s writing, both of dialogue and lyrics, is clever and poignant…A funny and touching new musical.”
Ellen Pfiefer, THE BOSTON GLOBE (THE GIG)
“Consistently witty songs by Douglas J. Cohen…tunes are catchy and full-bodied.”
David Rooney, VARIETY (THE BIG TIME)
“CHILDREN’S LETTERS TO GOD” manages to avert the cloying and to emphasize the amusing thanks to a fine young cast, bright lyrics (by Douglas J. Cohen), and the innate humor of its source material.”
Lawrence Van Gelder, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Cohen is a keen and clever composer/lyricist, with an offbeat sense and a penchant for sly surprises.”
Steven Suskin, PLAYBILL.COM (THE GIG CD)