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: Kander and Ebb Revisit Brecht and Weill in THE VISIT
April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015
Kander and Ebb's final musical provides a thrilling Broadway exit for Chita Rivera.
BWW Reviews: SOMETHING ROTTEN! This Way Comes
April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015
A pair of Elizabethan playwrights attempts to write the world's first musical in this rousing new show.
BWW Reviews: Unbearably Bland DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Can Use a Show Doctor
April 22, 2015
April 22, 2015
If it weren't for the book, music and lyrics, this would be a pretty terrific show.
BWW Reviews: LIVING ON LOVE is a Good Old Fashioned Laff Riot
April 21, 2015
April 21, 2015
Joe DiPietro's new comedy pits a legendary conductor against his opera diva wife.
BWW Reviews: CSC's HAMLET Better Off Not To Be
April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015
Austin Pendleton's production is marked by questionable acting and confusing staging.
BWW Reviews: Brave and Groundbreaking FUN HOME Transfers to Broadway
April 20, 2015
April 20, 2015
Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's musical rendering of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel demands to be seen by anyone who takes the art form seriously.
BWW Reviews: Sher's THE KING AND I is South Pacific's Siamese Twin
April 19, 2015
April 19, 2015
Kelli O'Hara stars in a Bartlett Sher Rodgers and Hammerstein revival that mimics his previous Rodgers and Hammerstein revival.
BWW Reviews: FINDING NEVERLAND Best Left Undiscovered
April 18, 2015
April 18, 2015
Diane Paulus' strong visuals can't rescue sluggish material.
BWW Reviews: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU is Terrifically Funny
April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015
A top-shelf cast squeezes all the laughs out of Hargrove and Anselmi's wedding day musical.
BWW Reviews: Clever 39 STEPS Returns to New York
April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015
Maria Aitken's charming mounting of Patrick Barlow's humorous adaptation is back Off-Broadway.
BWW Reviews: CLINTON, THE MUSICAL Doesn't Spare the Rodham
April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015
Kerry Butler is hilarious as the First Lady in a madcap musical spoof.
BWW Reviews: Wheeldon's Ravishing AN AMERICAN IN PARIS Beautifully Fuses Ballet and Drama
April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015
Ballet's Christopher Wheeldon's Broadway directorial debut is breathtaking.
BWW Reviews: Royal Shakespeare's WOLF HALL an Intriguing History Lesson
April 12, 2015
April 12, 2015
Ben Miles is excellent in the Royal Shakespeare Company's two-part adaptation of Hilary Mantel's exploration of Thomas Cromwell.
BWW Reviews: Sanitized GIGI Thanks Heaven For Legal Girls
April 9, 2015
April 9, 2015
Eric Schaeffer's perfunctory staging of Heidi Thomas' revised script provides more fizzle than fizz.
BWW Reviews: Gleefully Subversive HAND TO GOD Now Possesses Broadway
April 8, 2015
April 8, 2015
Robert Askins' downright audacious drama of demonic possession moves from Off-Off to Off- to Broadway.
BWW Reviews: BROADWAY BY THE YEAR 1941-1965
April 6, 2015
April 6, 2015
Scott Siegel's Town Hall series explores the changes a quarter century can make.
BWW Reviews: Hare's SKYLIGHT Talks a Good Game
April 3, 2015
April 3, 2015
Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy are exceptional in David Hare's drama of a mismatched relationship.
Lady Gaga to Sing From Sondheim's Newest at the Tonys
April 1, 2015
April 1, 2015
Lady Gaga will be introducing two songs from the score of Stephen Sondheim and David Ives' new musical in development at the 2015 Tony Awards.
BWW Reviews: Benanti, Hough and Wolpe Tour the City in Radio City Music Hall's NEW YORK SPRING SPECTACULAR
March 30, 2015
March 30, 2015
The new Rockettes showcase takes audiences to the Met Museum, Central Park, Times Square and Yankee Stadium.
BWW Reviews: Arden and Page Outstanding in THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
March 23, 2015
March 23, 2015
Disney's stage adaptation is highlighted by superb performances by Michael Arden and Patrick Page.
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