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.
STAGE TUBE: Deaf West Theatre's DJ Kurs Tells How SPRING AWAKENING Will Be The Most Accessible Show on Broadway
September 9, 2015
September 9, 2015
There will be performances for those with hearing loss who cannot read sign and audio described performances for the blind.
STAGE TUBE: THE BOOK OF MORMON Thanks MAMMA MIA For The Music In A Wild Music Video
September 9, 2015
September 9, 2015
Cast members of the Jumamosi Tour of THE BOOK OF MORMON don't know how they can ever let MAMMA MIA go.
PHOTO FLASH: Tony Yazbeck and Katie Huff Getting Carried Away at Yankee Stadium
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
A town's a lonely town when you're wearing the wrong baseball team's cap.
UP PERISCOPE: Jordan Roth and Darren Criss Play HEADS UP in Times Square to Promote ELSIE FEST
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
Close your eyes and test your Broadway knowledge along with them.
Author Mark Robinson Funding INTO THE WOODS - A BOOK THAT EXPLORES THE MUSICAL
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
'It is important to document theatre history so that future generations can truly comprehend the impact and artistic value of the great works.'
VIDEO FLASHBACK: Broadway Gets Totally Punked By The Original SPRING AWAKENING
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
As Deaf West's Broadway revival takes the stage for its first preview, a look at when SPRING AWAKENING's original production hit New York.
Angela Lansbury in a Rare Speaking Engagement at Cambria Church Fundraiser
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
The stage and screen legend will return to the area that stood in for MURDER, SHE WROTE's fictional Cabot Cove, Maine.
BWW Review: Peking Opera's Zhang Houding in LEGEND OF THE WHITE SNAKE and THE JEWELRY PURSE
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
One of the biggest names in Peking Opera in her first performances outside of China.
Remembering Judy Carne as a 1960s Song and Dance Swinger
September 8, 2015
September 8, 2015
Laugh-In's Sock-It-To-Me Girl also had a musical theatre career.
Olive Stanton, The Actress Who Started a Labor Rebellion on Opening Night of THE CRADLE WILL ROCK
September 7, 2015
September 7, 2015
When the United States government takes action to close a pro-labor musical, a little-known actress lets her voice be heard.
STAGE TUBE: Scenes from Deborah Zoe Laufer's Science Vs Religion Drama INFORMED CONSENT
September 5, 2015
September 5, 2015
A genetic anthropologist acquires blood samples from the Havasupai tribe to make a discovery that goes against their culture's beliefs.
STAGE TUBE: AVENUE Q UK/Ireland Tour Takes a Weekend in Brighton
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Lucy looks for lifeguards, Trekkie treks for the nude beach and Rod gets excited about the all-night sauna.
Greensboro College Play About Sexual Violence, IT STOPS HERE, Receives Heckling and Catcalls During Premiere Performance
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Actors in Michaela Richards' IT STOPS HERE, taken from first-hand accounts of sexual violence, get catcalled and heckled during premiere performance.
Boston's Colonial Theatre, Where Broadway History Was Written, and Rewritten
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Boston's 115-year-old Colonial Theatre, where so many notable (and not so notable) Broadway-bound productions worked out their kinks and licked their wounds, will be closing in October for at least a year, its future not determined.
BWW FRIDAY FLASHBACK: Broadway on Late Night and Not So Late Night Television, with Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Norbert Leo Butz and Rebecca Naomi Jones
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Clips of Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Norbert Leo Butz and Rebecca Naomi Jones bringing Broadway to your television screen.
PHOTO FLASH: Great Godfrey Corn Maze Designed as WICKED Logo
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
The 7-acre field has been designed to replicate the iconic artwork for the Broadway musical.
STAGE TUBE: HAND TO GOD's Provocative Puppet Jolene Goes Topless in Times Square
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Jolene Gives The Painted Ladies of Times Square Some Competition.
STAGE TUBE: D.R.E.A.M. Ring and The Marching Cobras Featured in Public Works' THE ODYSSEY
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Last of a three part series providing video introductions for the performing arts groups who will be featured in Public Works' THE ODYSSEY.
CONTEST: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Looks For Broadway's Biggest Fan
September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015
Snap your best Broadway-themed selfie for a chance to be featured in a video on one of Times Square's giant screens.
Up Periscope: Watch Robin de Jesus and Michael J. Moritz In An On-Line Concert Video
September 3, 2015
September 3, 2015
Music from WICKED, CAMP and more in a freshly made video broadcast live on Periscope.
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