Michael Dale - Page 151

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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Heartbreak House: Whatever Happened To Class?

October 23, 2006

If it's possible to find yourself enjoying a play while simultaneously feeling rather under whelmed by the whole thing, then The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of George Bernard Shaw's dark comedy is perhaps the best example of sorry/grateful to be found on Broadway these days.

Southern Comforts: Well-Seasoned Romantic Comedy

October 19, 2006

If there's a funnier, more enchanting or better-acted romantic comedy playing in New York than Kathleen Clark's story of septuagenarians faling in love, I sure can't name it.

The Cartells: A Theatrical Dynasty

October 18, 2006

Douglas Carter Beane's hilarious spoof of nighttime soaps combines bitchy drama, contemporary politics and the net-less tightrope walking excitement of intentionally under-rehearsed theatre

My Name Is Rachel Corrie: Off-Stage Drama

October 15, 2006

After all the controversy, the accusations of censorship and the petitions and letters of protest, Britain's Royal Court Theatre production has finally made it to New York.

Jay Johnson: The Two and Only!: Trippingly On The Tongue

October 15, 2006

For all the laughter and hilarity to be savored in this ventriloquism show, the most memorable moment to take home with you is a quiet, heart-tugging scene which has been played out hundreds of times, but perhaps never so lovingly

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The Humanities Girls

October 10, 2006

Although Muriel Spark's novel could certainly make for a fine play, Jay Presson Allen's stage adaptation is better served when treated as a star vehicle

Godspell: Forgive Me, Lord

October 8, 2006

Pity the unfortunate theatre critic who must review a perfectly good production of an extraordinarily popular musical that he's never really cared for.

Nixon's Nixon: Let Me Say This About That

October 5, 2006

MCC brings back the original actors and director for their 10 Anniversary production of Russell Lees' vision of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger

Behind The Limelight: Romance In Modern Times

October 4, 2006

Christopher Curtis' extremely promising musical explores the life and career of the 20th Century's first world famous person

Flight Of The Lawnchair Man: Let's Go Flying

October 1, 2006

Start with the gentle humor and imagination of a James Thurber, combine it with a mixture of hip and cute reminiscent of Charles Schulz and propel it with the humanistic passion of Frank Capra and you'll find yourself in the crazy and charming world of this off-the-wall musical

John Ferguson: Minty Fresh

September 29, 2006

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Machiavelli: Try And Talk Your Way Out Of This One

September 26, 2006

Richard Vetere's play lacks wit or any kind of empathy, but it might have stood a chance if Evan Bergman's blocking weren't so static

The Pain And The Itch: My So-Called Liberal Life

September 25, 2006

Bruce Norris' wonderfully vicious and somewhat disturbing dark comedy targets smart, educated and supposedly open-minded ladder-climbers whose left-wing activism is generally defined by watching PBS

Fifty Million Frenchmen: They Can't Be Wrong

September 22, 2006

Lost Musicals revives Cole Porter and Herbert Fields' witty escapist fluff about Americans in Paris

Asylum: The Strange Case of Mary Lincoln: Character Assassin

September 18, 2006

Given a fine and well-sung premiere production by The York Theatre, this new musical about the widowed first lady is by turns engaging in its successes and frustrating in its failures

The Treatment: Acts of Patriotism?

September 13, 2006

Eve Ensler's gripping and provocative two-character play deals with the psychological aftermath of performing cruel acts in the service of one's country

Camille O'Sullivan's La Fille du Cirque: Unfocused Talent

September 13, 2006

Camille O'Sullivan's American cabaret debut certainly shows talent, confidence, playfulness and a desire to challenge her audience, but working without a stage director or music director, the evening is repetitive, clichéd and lacking in both originality and clarity

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