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.
Billy Joel Pledges $1 Million To Keep Long Island High School For The Arts Open
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
The music legend stays true to his word from two months ago to help save the BOCES school from financial hardship.
VIDEO: Watch ECLIPSED's Lupita Nyong'o React To Seeing Not Just Her Name, But Her Face On A Broadway Marquee
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
The Academy Award winner makes her Broadway debut in Danai Gurira's tense and gripping drama.
PHOTO FLASHBACK: White House Historical Association Posts Pics of 1776 Cast Performing For President Nixon
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
In 1970, the Broadway company of 1776 played a special performance at The White House.
VIDEO: Idris Elba Addresses Parliament on Diversity in British Film and Television
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
The one year anniversary of the UK's Channel 4's 360° Diversity Charter comes at a time when Hollywood debates the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations.
VIDEO: Disney Testing PETER AND THE STARCATCHER at Minneapolis H.S.
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
This weekend's performances by students at Edina High School will help Disney develop a student version of the Broadway hit.
New York City Announces Sixth Consecutive Year of Record Tourism Growth with 58.3 Million Visitors in 2015
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
New York's reputation as a safe and fun tourist destination has been steadily growing in record numbers.
BWW Review: Linda Lavin's Sublime, But Richard Greenberg's OUR MOTHER'S BRIEF AFFAIR is Hardly One To Remember
January 21, 2016
January 21, 2016
The invaluable stage star makes the most of Greenberg's unreliable memory play.
New York's Ziegfeld Movie Theatre to Be Renovated Into Event Space
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
The 1,300 seat venue is Manhattan's last sing-screen movie house.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh Announces $1 Million For Arts Funding
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
The three-tiered plan will provide individual grants, expand the city's artist-in-residence program and establish an arts resource desk at City Hall.
Chicago Support Group NOT IN OUR HOUSE Combats Sexual Harassment In Theatre
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
In less than a year, the organization founded by actor Lori Myers has addressed issues of conduct both in and outside the workplace.
Blair Brown, Stephen Lang and Fritz Weaver Perform LINCOLN'S FAVORITE SHAKESPEARE at Metropolitan Museum
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
Our 16th president was a great fan of the performing arts and educated himself by reading Shakespeare.
VIDEOS: Tantalizing Peeks at Company XIV's Sensual SNOW WHITE
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
Director/choreographer Austin McCormick.brings his brand of baroque eroticism to the classic fairy tale.
At National Theatre, London's Black Actors Rely On African-American Plays
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
Cast members of MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM tell of the lack of opportunity to tell stories penned by their country's black playwrights.
BWW Review: Dominique Morisseau's SKELETON CREW, a Vivid Portrait of Urban Collapse
January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016
The engrossing workplace drama provides the final third of the playwright's Detroit trilogy.
Five Fun Facts About HELLO, DOLLY!
January 19, 2016
January 19, 2016
One of Broadway's most beloved musicals looked like a disaster in out-of-town previews.
It Takes A Horace! Who Should Star In HELLO, DOLLY! Opposite Bette Midler?
January 19, 2016
January 19, 2016
Dolly is a great comic role, but it requires a great foil playing opposite her.
VIDEO: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER Takes Its Final Broadway Bow
January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016
Jefferson Mays has parting words for the cheering crowds after slaying them in the aisles.
VIDEO: Museum of Modern Art Presents Screenings of Rare 1913 Bert Williams Film, LIME KILN CLUB FIELD DAY
January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016
Broadway's first black star in film footage lost for over 100 years.
VIDEOS: Five Broadway Songs That Confronted American Audiences On Racism
January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016
Five moments when Broadway songwriters risked shocking and angering patrons with discomforting truths.
BWW Review: Inuit Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq Reclaims The False Images of NANOOK OF THE NORTH
January 19, 2016
January 19, 2016
A thrilling theatre piece providing an improvised soundscape to a troubling classic film.
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