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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.

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The Fever: Post-Radical Chic

January 30, 2007

The New Group revives Wallace Shawn's 1990 monologue about a man feeling guilt for his privileged life

Her Song: Noteworthy Women

January 28, 2007

A new musical revue at Birdland salutes women songwriters from Katherine Lee Bates and Nora Bayes to Donna Summer and Stevie Nicks

Kristin Chenoweth, Live At The Met: Silly And Sublime

January 22, 2007

A sense of flippant musical comedy silliness, combined with a legit soprano of crystalline clarity, provided a keen balance of artistry and entertainment in Kristin Chenoweth's Metropolitan Opera concert debut

The Apple Tree: Golden Delicious

January 19, 2007

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1966 charmer is given a sublime revival with Kristin Chenoweth, Brian d'Arcy James and Marc Kudisch all in scrumptious form.

10 Memorable Moments of 2006

10 Memorable Moments of 2006

January 1, 2007

Michael Dale shares some of his most memorable theatre moments of 2006 and asks you to share yours

Company: Sorry-Grateful

December 20, 2006

With its sharp wit, incisive lyrics and music that's ferociously insistent when not rapturously melodic, Company is such a well-written show that, with the help Raul Esparza's spot on starring performance, it can still pack a wallop despite director John Doyle's interpretation that regularly threate

Lebensraum: An Unusual Homecoming

December 18, 2006

Israel Horovitz's play begins with the present day chancellor of Germany, Rudolph Stroiber, deciding to make amends for the Holocaust by inviting 6 million Jews from anywhere in the world to come to his country, where they'll be given jobs and granted automatic citizenship.

Home: Small Talk

December 9, 2006

The Actors' Company Theatre mounts a sterling new production of David Story's 1970 Tony-nominated comedy/drama

That Time Of The Year: Getting Through The Holidays

December 8, 2006

This new musical revue spoofs all the dreaded stress that comes every December, like trying not to embarrass yourself at multiple holiday parties, keeping family gatherings civil, buying the right present for your better half and trying not to gain weight while everyone's throwing food in your direc




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