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.
BWW Reviews: STICKS AND BONES Puts a Full Nelson on the Vietnam War
November 7, 2014
November 7, 2014
David Rabe's 1972 Tony-winner darkly satirizes America's self-image during the Vietnam era.
BWW Reviews: Stoppard's THE REAL THING Sings Its Heart Out
October 31, 2014
October 31, 2014
Sam Gold's revival of Tom Stoppard's marriage drama gets a jukebox touch.
BWW Reviews: FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1, 2 & 3) is Suzan-Lori Parks' Civil War Odyssey
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014
Parks emulates Greek drama in the first three parts of her nine-play cycle.
BWW Reviews: THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE Sings of Gentrification, White Privilege and Superman
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014
Itamar Moses and Michael Friedman's provocative and ambitious new musical is based on Jonathan Lethem's 2003 novel.
BWW Reviews: Sting's THE LAST SHIP an Old-Fashioned, Good-Hearted Musical Drama
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014
Sting has mentioned that he's a fan of Rodgers and Hammerstein, and it certainly shows.
BWW Reviews: Volatile, Discomforting DISGRACED Earns Its Pulitzer
October 24, 2014
October 24, 2014
Ayad Akhtar's drama of being Muslin in post 9/11 American makes for enthrallingly provocative theatre.
BWW Reviews: Richardson Brings Ironic Nerdiness to THE BELLE OF AMHERST
October 20, 2014
October 20, 2014
Emily Dickinson is played with a more contemporary feel in the new Off-Broadway production.
BWW Reviews: Revised CAN-CAN Is Charmingly Fizzy
October 19, 2014
October 19, 2014
Patti Colombo's choreography and Jason Danieley's performance highlight this rewritten version of the the Porter/Burrows musical.
BWW Reviews: LOVE LETTERS Gets Forwarded To Carol Burnett
October 18, 2014
October 18, 2014
The beloved comedy star joins Brian Dennehy in the first of the production's scheduled cast changes.
BWW Reviews: Tex Avery-Inspired ON THE TOWN Really Cooks
October 17, 2014
October 17, 2014
John Rando's fast and furious revival is done in the style of the famed Warner Brothers animator.
BWW Reviews: New Musical FOUND is a Real Find
October 15, 2014
October 15, 2014
Eli Bolin, Hunter Bell and Lee Overtree's telling of the creation of an unusual indie magazine is imaginative and spirited .
BWW Reviews: Billy Porter Turns Playwright With WHILE I YET LIVE
October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014
The Tony-winning actor's largely autobiographical drama is about growing up black, gay and Christian.
BWW Reviews: CINDERELLA Continues To Occupy Broadway
October 11, 2014
October 11, 2014
Keke Palmer, Sherri Shepherd and Judy Kaye join Douglas Carter Beane's political activist musical based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein television classic.
BWW Reviews: Nathan Lane Gives a Master Class in IT'S ONLY A PLAY
October 10, 2014
October 10, 2014
Terrence McNally updates his wickedly funny 1980s comedy set at a Broadway opening night party.
BWW Reviews: Stoppard's INDIAN INK Captivatingly Blends Romance, Sensuality, Politics and Culture
October 7, 2014
October 7, 2014
Carey Perloff's offers an exquisite production of Stoppard's tale of an English poet in colonial India.
BWW Reviews: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME is Visually Extraordinary, Emotionally Lacking
October 6, 2014
October 6, 2014
Director Marianne Elliott and her designers do exceptional work replicating the world as experienced by a teenager with a behavioral condition.
BWW Reviews: Chekhov Goes All WTF in THE COUNTRY HOUSE
October 3, 2014
October 3, 2014
Manhattan Theatre Club's latest addition to the genre of contemporary plays modeled after Chekhov is by far the company's best.
BWW Reviews: SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, Divorced From Emotions
October 2, 2014
October 2, 2014
Director Ivo van Hove has three pairs of actors simultaneously playing out Bergman's dissolving partnership.
BWW Reviews: Blessing Sees The Arms Race as A WALK IN THE WOODS
October 1, 2014
October 1, 2014
Kathleen Chalfant and Paul Niebanck star as Cold War negotiators out for a friendly stroll.
BWW Reviews: YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, a Classic Comedy Given a Classic Production
September 29, 2014
September 29, 2014
James Earl Jones heads a terrific cast in Scott Ellis' hilarious revival.
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