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.
Vivien: The Troubled World of Vivien Leigh
September 19, 2005
September 19, 2005
Janis Stevens is impressive in Rick Foster's solo play of the legendary actress with bi-polar disorder
The Banger's Flopera: Maybe Michael John LaChiusa Was Right
September 17, 2005
September 17, 2005
It's The Beggar's Opera updated to the 21st Century, featuring gangstaz, pornstaz, popstaz and lots of screaming
Silk Stockings: Cole Porter Fights The Cold War
September 15, 2005
September 15, 2005
Lost Musicals presents a staged reading of Cole Porter's 1955 musical political satire
The Last Days of Cleopatra: Liz and Dick and a History Making Film
September 6, 2005
September 6, 2005
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton clash egos and steal kisses on the set of an epic flop
Silence! The Musical: Anything But Quiet
September 2, 2005
September 2, 2005
With a tremendous amount of buzz, Silence! The Musical delivers the kind of outrageous laughs theatre-goers were hoping for, plus a genuine star performance from Jenn Harris
The Consolation of Poetry (Becoming Elizabeth Barrett Browning): Creating a Solo Performance
August 29, 2005
August 29, 2005
Barbara Neri's charming and modestly eloquent piece is a solo play about the questions and concerns an artist may have in putting such a show together
Unspeakable: The Troubled Genius of Richard Pryor
August 26, 2005
August 26, 2005
An abstract play about one of comedy's most influential stand-ups
The Importance of Marrying Well$: Wilde-ly Clever
August 24, 2005
August 24, 2005
A gloriously funny parade of farcical romance and bitchy bon mots adapted from a classic comedy
The Last Castrato: Hits High Notes Despite Something Missing
August 24, 2005
August 24, 2005
Andy Eniger's solo play has Jeff Swearingen playing a man born without a penis dating a woman born with her skin inside out. And then it gets weird.
Byzantium: Ambitious, But Not Quite Ready
August 23, 2005
August 23, 2005
A new musical attempts to tell of an ancient political scandel with a modern slant
Edna St. Vincent Millay Speaks to the Committee on Immortality: Poetic Seduction
August 23, 2005
August 23, 2005
Jennifer Gibbs' solo play remembers the charmed life of a symbol of the free-living and sexually charged Bohemian lifestyle of the 1920's
You Mutha!: It Ain't All Carol Brady
August 19, 2005
August 19, 2005
Jennie Fahn's hilarious high-energy musical comedy rant on the frustrations of being a wife and mother while just barely holding on to one's sanity
The Suffrajets Present A Musical Seance: Onward Again, Victoria
August 18, 2005
August 18, 2005
A vaudeville style salute to America's first female presidential candidate and public advocate for Free Love
The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim: I Say Don't
August 17, 2005
August 17, 2005
A slight political drama featuring a song-and-dance mayor
Joy: Let's Face the Music and Laugh
August 16, 2005
August 16, 2005
John Fisher's romantic comedy is a frothy bit of sexy comic charm mixing high style and romantic silliness
Lennon: Give Yoko A Chance
August 14, 2005
August 14, 2005
An immensely entertaining and informative show that positively bursts with both silliness and sincere emotions while examining an artist who tried to use his celebrity to help save the world.
Elena Shaddow Sings Maury Yeston's December Songs
August 13, 2005
August 13, 2005
A young Broadway performer brings Yeston's classical work to the cabaret stage
Glory Road: A Televangelist Tartuffe
August 10, 2005
August 10, 2005
A new musical suggested by Moliere's classic comedy
The Persians... a comedy about war with five songs: A Cry For Peace from Ancient Greece
August 8, 2005
August 8, 2005
Waterwell Productions turns Aeschylus' classic into musical sketch comedy
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