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.
ALADDIN's Alan Menken Chimes In His Choices For The Next Disney Film On Broadway
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
Three of his Disney musicals have transferred from film to stage. Which do you think should be next?
VIDEO: THE TEMPEST Performed Outdoors By Nude All-Woman Cast In Central Park (NSFW)
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
The Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society makes a point about attitudes towards nudity with their first theatre production.
INSTAGRAM CHECK: UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT's Tituss Burgess Sings With Joy Before Filming With Julie Andrews
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
The Broadway and television star can't control his excitement when about to work with the living legend.
Transgender Actor MJ Rodriguez Thanks Telsey + Company For HAMILTON Audition
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
The 2011 Clive Barnes Award winner as Angel in RENT was seen for Peggy Schuyler.
VIDEO: Rehearsal Preview of Robert Cuccioli in 5th Avenue Theatre's PAINT YOUR WAGON
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
The Lerner and Loewe classic score will be performed with a new book by Pulitzer finalist Jon Marans.
London's National Theatre Will Limit Critics To Just One Press Comp
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
The long-time tradition of offering two press comps to reviewers will be discontinued in August.
Tony Award Countdown: 30 Years In 30 Days, The Great Gregory Hines in JELLY'S LAST JAM, 1992
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016
Twenty-four years before SHUFFLE ALONG, Gregory Hines starred in another George C. Wolfe musical about African-American performing artists.
VIDEO: THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES' Christina Bianco's Hilarious MARY POPPINS DIVA MEDLEY
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
Filmed live at Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Bianco sings a medley of Sherman Brothers classics as Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears, Idina Menzel, Liza Minnelli and many more.
CATS' Choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler On Unfolding The Familiar To Find Something Deeper
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The IN THE HEIGHTS and HAMILTON choreography looks to honor CATS' past while creating something deeper.
VIDEO: Shoshana Bean's Stunning Rendering of 'Stone Cold' For Postmodern Jukebox
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The soon to be star of North Shore Music Theatre's FUNNY GIRL puts her personal stamp on Demi Lovato's hit.
TWITTER WATCH: Kelli O'Hara Announces Summer Concert Schedule
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The Tony-winning star has a summer full of concert appearances leading up to an October solo concert at Carnegie Hall.
BWW Review: Penelope Skinner's THE RUINS OF CIVILIZATION, a Dystopian Dilemma
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
Skinner's futuristic drama combines issues of climate change, privilege, women having control of their bodies and putting up walls,
Tony Award Countdown: 30 Years In 30 Days, Lea Salonga, Jonathan Pryce, Hinton Battle in MISS SAIGON, 1991
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The controversy over casting nearly kept the West End hit from coming to Broadway.
BWW Review: Paula Vogel's INDECENT, an Uplifting Drama of The Power of Theatre
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The true story of a Yiddish play with a lesbian love scene was embraced in Europe, but censored in New York.
Actors' Equity, Chicago Public Library Creating Film Archive of Chicago Theatre
May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016
The new theatre preservation project is modeled after the New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
VIDEO: HAMILTON's Javier Munoz Helps Cast-Mate Ariana DeBose Reach Broadway Bares Goal For Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
HAMILTON's alternate star talks about where the money goes when you contribute to BC/EFA.
VIDEO: San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Brings Intimacy Back To Revised ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
2011 revised version of the 1965 Lerner & Lane musical went from an intimate affair to a large Broadway production.
Bucks County Farmhouse Where Oscar Hammerstein Mentored Stephen Sondheim For Sale
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
The future of the home where classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals were written is in question.
Sheridan Smith FUNNY GIRL Cast Recording To Be Released July 8th
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
Pre-orders for the Menier Chocolate Factory production that transferred to the West End's Savoy Theatre are now being taken by Amazon.
Police Investigation At 49th Street and 8th Avenue as Knife-Wielding Man Shot Dead
May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016
New York City Emergency Management reports temporary street closures on 8th Avenue in the Theatre District.
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