Michael Dale

4th Annual OC Theatre Guild Awards Celebrate Orange County's Theatre Scene
by Stephi Wild - Apr 30, 2025

On Monday night, the Orange County theater community gathered once again to celebrate excellence in live performance at the 4th Annual OC Theatre Guild Awards.

Interview: Sonny Paladino of A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL at Ohio Theatre
by Paul Batterson - Apr 14, 2025

Sonny Paladino distinctly remembers when Judgement Day arrived for the show A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL. After months of rehearsing, Paladino, the music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator, and the cast of the Neil Diamond bio-musical faced their toughest critic in January 2020 when Diamond himself walked into the room.

The Contemporary Theatre Of Ohio Kicks Off 40th Season With BIG FISH
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 26, 2024

The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio will open its 2024-2025 season with the musical Big Fish, running from September 12-29, 2024, in Studio One at the Vern Riffe Center.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: Alison Fraser Thrillingly Reinvents Cat On A Hot Tin Roof's Big Mama
by Michael Dale - Jul 31, 2022

A popular stage actor best known for being quirkily funny in musicals (Off-Broadway in March Of The Falsettos, on Broadway in Romance, Romance, The Secret Garden and Gypsy), Fraser reinvents a classic character and turns in a performance that thrills with its gutsy power masked by her character's well-rehearsed elegance.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: The Fire This Time Festival's 13th Year of Spotlighting Early-Career Playwrights From The African Diaspora
by Michael Dale - Jul 10, 2022

With a name lending new urgency to a rhyming couplet from the African-American spiritual 'Mary, Don't You Weep' ('God gave Noah the rainbow sign / No more water, the fire next time') the annual Fire This Time Festival has produced dozens of ten-minutes plays in its mission to 'provide a platform for early-career playwrights from the African diaspora to explore new directions for 21st century theater'.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: Steph Del Rosso's Sharp Social Commentary, 53% Of, Takes On Added Significance After Supreme Court Rulings
by Michael Dale - Jul 3, 2022

The title refers to the 53% of white women who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but that's just the starting point.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: Giants Can Be Good in Into The Woods & Artist and Subject Fight For Control of the Narrative in Shooting Celebrities
by Michael Dale - May 15, 2022

Three plays where what seems like the truth might be a subjective point of view.

Industry Pro Newsletter: The Numbers Are In on Annie Live and the State of the Industry
by Alex Freeman - Dec 6, 2021

As we once again find ourselves entering a winter of uncertainty, a few breakthrough infections and other illnesses have plagued major productions in multiple markets the past few weeks. While many continue to track the Omicron variant, a surge of Delta cases has made planning more complicated than most people hoped it would be.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: 30/90, 30/89 & 30/13
by Michael Dale - Dec 5, 2021

Jonathan Larson's posthumous success may be a unique story, but tick, tick... Boom! deals with a universal truth most artists must deal with sometime in their lives.

Industry Pro Newsletter: Box Office Steady Heading into Thanksgiving, Broadway Mourns Sondheim's Passing
by Alex Freeman - Nov 29, 2021

Stephen Sondheim pushed the form to new heights, and in many ways gave us the modern musical that we know today. The theatre world is completely different because he was in it, and as we move forward without Sondheim, it will never be the same again.

Wake Up With BWW 11/29: Rest in Peace, Stephen Sondheim
by - Nov 29, 2021

On Friday, Broadway lost the legendary Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91. Read our obituary and check out photo and video coverage from a gathering of Broadway stars performing 'Sunday' in his honor.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale: After a Brief Intermission...
by Michael Dale - Nov 28, 2021

How my exposure to the diversity of New York theatre changed once I started going to Off-Off-Broadway more frequently than to Broadway.

Wake Up With BWW 11/15: COMPANY Previews Resume Tonight, and More!
by - Nov 15, 2021

Today's top stories include the return of Company, which resumes previews tonight! Learn more about the cast in our 'Meet the Cast' piece!

Industry Pro Newsletter: Broadway Grosses Tick Up, Theatre Workers Are Leaving the Industry
by Alex Freeman - Nov 15, 2021

The holidays are starting to look more “normal” for Broadway and NYC - with restrictions on international tourists lifted, the return of the Broadway holiday schedule, and an uptick in grosses post-Halloween, things are starting to feel much more normal in New York - and regions beyond.

Sunday Morning Michael Dale
by Michael Dale - Nov 14, 2021

Sharing views not only on the current Broadway and Off-Broadway scenes, but offering an appreciative spotlight to Off-Off Broadway artists and other lesser-known entertainers who are just as important in making New York the nation's live performing arts capital. To encourage rather than critique.

Christopher Cartlidge is the Australian String Quartet's New Violist
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 15, 2021

The Australian String Quartet has announced the appointment of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Associate Principal Viola, Christopher Cartlidge, as its new violist. The engagement comes as outgoing ASQ Violist Stephen King (2012 – 2021) steps into the new ASQ role of Director of Learning and Engagement.

Review Roundup: JOHN CULLUM: AN ACCIDENTAL STAR; Streaming Now
by Nicole Rosky - Apr 12, 2021

Vineyard Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, and Irish Repertory Theatre in association with Jeff Berger present John Cullum: An Accidental Star, which premiered on April 8 and will be available for streaming on demand through April 22. Check out what the critics had to say!

SHAKESPEARE@HOME Presents Episode Two of THE TEMPEST Starring David Hargreaves, Maria-Christina Oliveras & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 6, 2020

West End vets team up with Broadway and Hollywood stalwarts in the second episode of the all-free radio play production of Shakespeare's The Tempest which airs Thursday, October 8th at 7PM EST.

Staff Picks: BroadwayWorld Selects Performances That Will Make You Cry
by Nicole Rosky - May 28, 2020

The BroadwayWorld team has come together to help guide your musical quarantine journey. Today, we bring you just a few recommendations for a performance that will make you cry...

Staff Picks: BroadwayWorld Selects Cast Recordings That Make Us Feel Nostalgic
by Nicole Rosky - May 21, 2020

The BroadwayWorld team has come together to help guide your musical quarantine journey. Today, we bring you just a few recommendations for: A cast recording to make you feel nostalgic...