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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.




Broadway Originals: A Living History of Musical Theatre
November 5, 2005

The First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival concludes with an afternoon of great performers and the great songs they introduced

A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun: Shooting Blanks
November 3, 2005

Veanne Cox makes this attempt at dark comedy a lot funnier than it really is

nor'mal: Pretty to the Bone
November 1, 2005

An impressive new musical has a mother dealing with her daughter's anorexia

Euan Morton and Eden Espinosa in Concert at Town Hall
October 31, 2005

On the second night of Town Hall's First Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival, both of these rising stars took the stage individually for their concert debuts

New York Festival Of Song presents Since The Seventies
October 25, 2005

A bit of theatre music is included in a classical concert celebrating 'the return of melody to vocal music'

The High Life: The Formerly Gay Musical
October 24, 2005

Musicals Tonight! revives the show that premiered on Broadway as The Gay Life

Absurd Person Singular: Hell's Kitchens
October 22, 2005

Alan Ayckbourn's darkly comic farce gets a funny, if not exactly insightful, revival

Latinologues: Who's Afraid of Ethnic Stereotypes?
October 17, 2005

Rick Najera's play combines stand-up comedy, solo character-driven theatre and sketch comedy for ninety minutes of Latin American humor

A Naked Girl On The Appian Way: Here's the Story... Of a Liberal Lady...
October 18, 2005

Richard Greenberg's new comedy may remind you of a certain Brady Bunch fantasy

Moscow Cats Theatre: But Can They Sing 'Memory'?
October 11, 2005

Cats trained to walk tightropes, jump on cue and perform death defying balancing acts

Einstein's Gift: The Horrors of Great Discoveries
October 11, 2005

Vern Thiessen's historical morality play focuses on Fritz Haber, a German-Jewish chemist whose work saved many lives and destroyed many lives

NYMF Recap: Feeling Electric, The Big Time and The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
October 8, 2005

A look back at three entries from the New York Musical Theater Festival

Slut: Almost Like Being In Love... NOT!!
October 3, 2005

Save your long-term love affairs for <i>Guys and Dolls</i> or <i>South Pacific</i>. <i>Slut</i> is a musical to enjoy one crazy night with and vaguely remember a week from now.

Colder Than Here: Good Grief
October 2, 2005

Laura Wade's drama deals with the bereavement that occurs before a loved one dies

In The Wings: When Bad Plays Happen to Good Actors
September 29, 2005

Aside from natural disasters, acts of war and innocent people spending years in jail for crimes they didn't commit, there are few things as sad as talented theatre artists making fine contributions to a really lousy play.

Fran's Bed: A Bit Too Soft
September 28, 2005

This may very well be the least controversial play ever written about whether or not to cut off a hospital patient's life support

Walking Down Broadway: Young Romance in the Jazz Age
September 27, 2005

The Mint Theater premieres Dawn Powell's 1931 comedy/drama of finding love and adventure in New York

Richard Cory: Something to Talk About
September 26, 2005

Ed Dixon's excellent musical adaptation of A.R. Gurney's play features a sung-through score and a title character who cannot sing

The Mistress Cycle: The Women Who Come Second
September 24, 2005

An extraordinary and exquisite chamber musical explores the lives of five women who have come between a husband and wife

The Ladies of the Corridor: A Rich Revival of a Dorothy Parker Rarity
September 20, 2005

The Peccadillo Theatre Company brings back their outstanding production of Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau's comedy/drama



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