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.
BWW Reviews: THREE DAYS TO SEE Stages the Writings of Helen Keller
July 28, 2015
July 28, 2015
Transport Group's new theatre piece has a seven member ensemble portraying the famous deafblind woman.
BWW Reviews: Maxwell Goes Out With a Flourish in SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION
July 26, 2015
July 26, 2015
Howard Barker's 1984 drama of art and politics is said to be Jan Maxwell's final stage appearance.
BWW Reviews: Ghostly Rock Opera DEEP LOVE More Concert Than Drama
July 25, 2015
July 25, 2015
A terrifically sung and designed mounting can't mask the lack of strong storytelling.
BWW Reviews: Quinn Deconstructs the City's Personality in THE NEW YORK STORY
July 24, 2015
July 24, 2015
Colin Quinn explores the rich diversified heritage of New York City one ethnic joke at a time.
BWW Reviews: Bland AMAZING GRACE Blessed With Barre's Terrific Production
July 17, 2015
July 17, 2015
Is it possible to leave a theatre humming the direction?
BWW Reviews: Sutton Foster Raises The Roof in Lippa's Revised THE WILD PARTY
July 16, 2015
July 16, 2015
Andrew Lippa's substantially revised version of his adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's Jazz Age narrative poem features an outstanding cast.
BWW Reviews: NYMF Musical CLAUDIO QUEST Spoofs the Mario Brothers
July 15, 2015
July 15, 2015
Drew Fornarola and Marshall Pailet's musical comedy is a gleeful valentine to Nintendo video games.
BWW Reviews: PENN & TELLER ON BROADWAY, Magic Without The Mystery
July 13, 2015
July 13, 2015
Once reluctant to call themselves magicians, Penn & Teller's wryly humored show affectionately honors sideshow entertainment.
BWW Reviews: Beckett's HAPPY DAYS, or Winnie Loves Willie
July 7, 2015
July 7, 2015
Brooke Adams is a charming symbol of optimism in Samuel Beckett's landmark of existentialist theatre.
BWW Review: Greene Glimmers in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
July 3, 2015
July 3, 2015
Ellen Greene doesn't just reprise her iconic performances as Audrey, she deepens it.
BWW Reviews: Ross' OF GOOD STOCK, Three Sisters in Cape Cod
July 1, 2015
July 1, 2015
Melissa Ross' funny and emotionally engaging play takes on a genre made familiar by Chekhov and Wasserstein.
BWW Reviews: Beane's Fizzy SHOWS FOR DAYS Recalls The Drama of Community Theatre
June 30, 2015
June 30, 2015
Douglas Carter Bean's funny and sentimental new comedy has Patti LuPone as an amateur playhouse diva.
BWW Reviews: New BROADWAY BY THE YEAR Covers 1991-2015
June 29, 2015
June 29, 2015
The latest edition of Scott Siegel's acclaimed series shows the growing number of Broadway musicals without new scores.
BWW Reviews: Finn and Lapine Perform Minor Surgery on A NEW BRAIN
June 26, 2015
June 26, 2015
The musical inspired by William Finn's near-death experience gets a revised concert mounting from Encores! Off-Center.
BWW Reviews: Mamet's GHOST STORIES Provides Little Chill
June 25, 2015
June 25, 2015
Atlantic Theater revives a double bill of David Mamet one-acts.
BWW Reviews: Noth Barely Sells It as DOCTOR FAUSTUS
June 22, 2015
June 22, 2015
Chris Noth does not command attention in a disjointed adaptation of Marlowe's classic.
BWW Reviews: SIGNIFICANT OTHER Takes a Familiar Plot Into The 21st Century
June 20, 2015
June 20, 2015
A single gay man keeps losing his straight female best friends to marriage in Joshua Harmon's sentimental comedy.
BWW Reviews: Jacobs-Jenkins' GLORIA, A Fight For The Public's Collective Memory
June 19, 2015
June 19, 2015
The 30-year-old playwright is solidly emerging as one of American theatre's most provocative and challenging voices.
BWW Reviews: Greif's THE TEMPEST of the Teapot Variety
June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015
Sam Waterston leads a Delacorte production that lacks firm propulsion.
BWW Reviews: Malloy's PRELUDES Doesn't Lead To Very Much
June 16, 2015
June 16, 2015
Sergei Rachmaninoff's reaction to the disastrous premiere of his first symphony inspires this abstract piece.
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