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.
Review – THE OLD FRIENDS Offers an Albee-ish Side of Foote
September 14, 2013
September 14, 2013
Horton Foote's final new play is spiced up with vicious cattiness, cruel power-playing and lots of casual cocktailing,
Review: FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN Unmasks Two Racial Icons
September 13, 2013
September 13, 2013
Will Power's provocative comic drama is inspired by a photo of Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit.
Review – ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON Takes Daisey Full Circle
September 12, 2013
September 12, 2013
Mike Daisey's 29 monologues explore New York through an entire lunar cycle.
Review - STOP. RESET. Explores The Future of History
September 8, 2013
September 8, 2013
Regina Taylor's intriguing play has an African-American book publisher confronting the way technology has changed memory.
Review - Public Works' THE TEMPEST Celebrates New York Community
September 8, 2013
September 8, 2013
With a cast of over 200 combining professionals and clients from the city's social service organizations, The Tempest rejoices in New York's cultural diversity.
Review – JUDGMENT DAY an Apocalypse of Laughter
September 12, 2013
September 12, 2013
Donald Corren hilariously plays eight characters in Maria S. Schlatter's very funny look at the predicted end of the world.
Review - SOUL DOCTOR In Need Of A Show Doctor
August 15, 2013
August 15, 2013
Awkward and cliched bio-musical only reveals its heart when Eric Anderson sings the music of Shlomo Carlebach.
Review - LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST; a Rowdy and Mirthful Summer Night
August 12, 2013
August 12, 2013
The boys behind Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson offer a crazily antic new Shakespeare musical.
Review - FIRST DATE Earns A Goodnight Kiss
August 8, 2013
August 8, 2013
The funny and frisky new musical comedy sends a welcome blast of cooling hipness into Broadway's summer.
Review - 'Harbor' Hardly Sets Sail
August 7, 2013
August 7, 2013
Alexis Molnar stands out in Chad Beguelin's stumbling family dramedy.
Review - 'Let It Be' Offers Nostalgic Look Back At 'Rain' and 'Beatlemania'
August 2, 2013
August 2, 2013
West End transfer lets audiences relive the experience of attending Broadway's two previous Beatles cover band concerts.
Review - 'Getting My Act Together' Surfs Feminism's Second Wave
July 28, 2013
July 28, 2013
The second wave of feminism not only brought issues of reproductive rights and social inequality into the forefront of American conversation, it also produced the first hit Off-Broadway musical completely written by women.
Review - Cirque du Soleil's 'Quidam' Pops Into Brooklyn
July 27, 2013
July 27, 2013
The skills and strengths of Cirque du Soleil's balancing, contorting and hand/eye coordinating artists are still awe-inspiring and gasp-inducing.
Review - 'Dancing On Nails' Requires Sharpening
July 26, 2013
July 26, 2013
Paul Manuel Kane's interracial May/December romantic drama is very much a work-in-progress.
Review – 'Storyville' Jazz Musical Is Too Darn Lukewarm
July 25, 2013
July 25, 2013
York Theatre's musical set in the infamous New Orleans red light district of a hundred years ago doesn't do justice to the subject.
Review - Wallace Shawn's 'The Designated Mourner' Intrigues at The Public
July 22, 2013
July 22, 2013
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory team up for another look at the disdain for intellectualism.
Review - 'Violet' Blooms Rapturously
July 19, 2013
July 19, 2013
Sutton Foster leads Encores! Off-Center's outstanding concert production of Tesori and Crawley's underappreciated gem.
BWW Reviews: FOREVER TANGO Steams Up Broadway's Summer
July 15, 2013
July 15, 2013
Necking couples in the Walter Kerr Theatre balcony are bound to be a common sight this summer as 'Forever Tango' returns to steam up Broadway.
Review - Encores! Brings Back Revolutionary 'The Cradle Will Rock'
July 12, 2013
July 12, 2013
Anika Noni Rose and Raul Esparza star in Marc Blitzstein's historic pro-labor protest musical.
Review - Mint Revives Touching 'A Picture of Autumn'
June 28, 2013
June 28, 2013
N.C. Hunter's bittersweet drama of aging parents is filled with pathos and charm.
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