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Michael Dale After 20-odd years singing, dancing and acting in dinner theatres, summer stocks and the ever-popular audience participation murder mysteries (try improvising with audiences after they?ve had two hours of open bar), Michael Dale segued his theatrical ambitions into playwriting. The buildings which once housed the 5 Off-Off Broadway plays he penned have all been destroyed or turned into a Starbucks, but his name remains the answer to the trivia question, "Who wrote the official play of Babe Ruth's 100th Birthday?" He served as Artistic Director for The Play's The Thing Theatre Company, helping to bring free live theatre to underserved communities, and dabbled a bit in stage managing and in directing cabaret shows before answering the call (it was an email, actually) to become BroadwayWorld.com's first Chief Theatre Critic. While not attending shows Michael can be seen at Citi Field pleading for the Mets to stop imploding. Likes: Strong book musicals and ambitious new works. Dislikes: Unprepared celebrities making their stage acting debuts by starring on Broadway and weak bullpens.




VIDEO FLASHBACK: LORD OF THE DANCE Michael Flatley's Twenty Year Road To Broadway
VIDEO FLASHBACK: LORD OF THE DANCE Michael Flatley's Twenty Year Road To Broadway
September 29, 2015

Internationally celebrated Irish-American dancer Michael Flatley will be making his Broadway debut this autumn with LORD OF THE DANCE: DANGEROUS GAMES

Set Designer Mimi Lien and Tap Dancer/Choreographer Michelle Dorrance Among 2015 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant Recipients
Set Designer Mimi Lien and Tap Dancer/Choreographer Michelle Dorrance Among 2015 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant Recipients
September 29, 2015

Set designer of NATASHA, PIERRE, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 and founder of Dorrance Dance/New York are among this year's 24 fellows.

STAGE TUBE: David Hyde Pierce, David Lindsay-Abaire, Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor Chat up RIPCORD
STAGE TUBE: David Hyde Pierce, David Lindsay-Abaire, Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor Chat up RIPCORD
September 29, 2015

Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor play new roommates in an assisted living facility who get caught up in a dangerous game of one-upmanship.

STAGE TUBE: FINDING NEVERLAND Announces Back To School Play Contest For Grades 6-12
STAGE TUBE: FINDING NEVERLAND Announces Back To School Play Contest For Grades 6-12
September 29, 2015

Students are invited to write a 5 minute play based on characters from FINDING NEVERLAND

STAGE TUBE: HAND TO GOD's Tyrone McHansely Says 'Dream Big' in Brand New Motivational Monday
STAGE TUBE: HAND TO GOD's Tyrone McHansely Says 'Dream Big' in Brand New Motivational Monday
September 29, 2015

Time for this week's sage advice from Hand to God's kind and even-tempered patron saint of self-control, Tyrone McHansely.

Breaking News: HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puppeteer Basil Twist Among 2015 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant Recipients
Breaking News: HAMILTON's Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puppeteer Basil Twist Among 2015 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant Recipients
September 29, 2015

HAMILTON author/star Lin-Manuel Miranda and avant-garde puppeteer Basil Twist are among the 24 recipients of the 2015 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

BWW Review: Clever and Enchanting New Chamber Musical, DADDY LONG LEGS
BWW Review: Clever and Enchanting New Chamber Musical, DADDY LONG LEGS
September 29, 2015

Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan in an adaptation of Jean Webster's 1912 novel.

VIDEO: Broadway Highlights From THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW and THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW, Coming to Sony Pictures TV's GetTV
VIDEO: Broadway Highlights From THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW and THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW, Coming to Sony Pictures TV's GetTV
September 28, 2015

Broadway highlights from the two programs featured in a new Monday night block of television variety.

Critic Walks Out on Young Jean Lee's THE SHIPMENT, Reviews It Anyway
Critic Walks Out on Young Jean Lee's THE SHIPMENT, Reviews It Anyway
September 28, 2015

As reported on the website Indy Week, earlier this month theatre critic Pamela Vesper walked out after the second scene of the Black Ops Theatre Company and Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern's production of Lee's THE SHIPMENT, performed at the Common Ground Theatre in Durham, North Carolina.

TWITTER WATCH: SPRING AWAKENING's Opening Night Company Bow on Video
TWITTER WATCH: SPRING AWAKENING's Opening Night Company Bow on Video
September 28, 2015

Audience members stood, applauded and shook their hands in the air; the American Sign Language way of applauding.

Shakespeare Translated Into Modern English?  Would You Attend?
Shakespeare Translated Into Modern English? Would You Attend?
September 28, 2015

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will soon announce that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of William Shakespeare's plays into modern English.

BWW Review: Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING Revival Expands on The Original's Passionate Themes
BWW Review: Deaf West's SPRING AWAKENING Revival Expands on The Original's Passionate Themes
September 28, 2015

Adding deaf actors to the already heated story of sexual awakening brings in additional historic context.

STAGE TUBE: Irish Rep Previews Cantankerous New Comedy, THE QUARE LAND
STAGE TUBE: Irish Rep Previews Cantankerous New Comedy, THE QUARE LAND
September 26, 2015

An old Irish farmer is having his first bath in four years when he's surprised by a visit from a developer hoping to buy his land to convert to a golf course.

VIDEO: SYLVIA Celebrates National Dog Week At Central Park
VIDEO: SYLVIA Celebrates National Dog Week At Central Park
September 26, 2015

Sound designer Thomas Morse needed to pick up sounds of dogs playing in Central Park, so what better time than National Dog Week?

VIDEO: ROTHSCHILD & SONS' Robert Cuccioli Sings National Anthem Before Mets Game
VIDEO: ROTHSCHILD & SONS' Robert Cuccioli Sings National Anthem Before Mets Game
September 26, 2015

This was the moment when Broadway's own Robert Cuccioli sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' before the New York Mets took on the Miami Marlins.

STAGE TUBE: AMAZING GRACE Company Invites You To Come Sing Their Finale
STAGE TUBE: AMAZING GRACE Company Invites You To Come Sing Their Finale
September 26, 2015

Audience members, some moved to tears, stand and sing along after every performance of AMAZING GRACE

STAGE TUBE: Mamie Gummer, Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino and Director Patricia McGregor Discuss UGLY LIES THE BONE
STAGE TUBE: Mamie Gummer, Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino and Director Patricia McGregor Discuss UGLY LIES THE BONE
September 26, 2015

Mamie Gummer plays an American soldier returning from Afghanistan with painful burns that have left her physically and emotionally scarred.

Reasons To Get Excited; Broadway's October Openings
Reasons To Get Excited; Broadway's October Openings
September 26, 2015

Which of these October openings are you most excited for?

Reductress Reports 'Von Trapping' Trending as Way To End Relationships
Reductress Reports 'Von Trapping' Trending as Way To End Relationships
September 25, 2015

THE SOUND OF MUSIC inspires a new way to cleanly break it off with a boyfriend.

BWW Interview:  Composer/Lyricist Paul Gordon and Bookwriter/Director John Caird on Making DADDY LONG LEGS Sing
BWW Interview: Composer/Lyricist Paul Gordon and Bookwriter/Director John Caird on Making DADDY LONG LEGS Sing
September 25, 2015

'We will probably be the only adaptation to have stayed completely true to this lovely novel.'



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