Michael Dale News

Adam Rapp's absurdist quirkfest has its flaws, but Paul Sparks and Heather Goldenhersh are hilarious as would-be lovers in a dangerous world.

Terrance McNally's new play argues in favor of gay marriage rights through simple romanticism and good-natured humor.

At 70-something years of age, Marilyn Maye's pipes are still golden and her engagement at The Metropolitan Room is about the closest you'll get to an evening composed entirely of showstoppers.

Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Lee Pockriss and Anne Croswell's musical version of Oscar Wilde's classic is fun and entertaining.

British actor David Oyelowo is gritty and majestic in a production that never matches his performance.

In Al Grand's zesty and fun Yiddish translation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic, young Frederick is a former Yeshiva student and the Major General is an Orthodox Jew who bakes fine honey cakes and is a friend of Benjamin Disraeli.

Brian Harris' innocuous trio of one-act comedies isn't nearly as entertaining as the attractive young couple sitting directly in front of me who were fondling, tickling, massaging, kissing and snuggling each other throughout the play.

Craig Lucas' deceptively light comic romantic fantasy can send you out of the theatre smiling, and then keep you awake at nights wondering.

The final production in the Signature Theatre Company's outstanding August Wilson season is the 1980's entry of the author's cycle of ten plays depicting a decade-by-decade account of black experiences in the 20th Century.

Director Lillian Groag draws on Lewis Carroll and Monty Python in New York City Opera's new production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

Lin-Manual Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes's musical celebration of Washington Heights is easily one of the best musicals to open in New York this season, if not the best.

George S. Irving is featured in Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Kander and Ebb's 1968 musical

Kelsey Grammer, Kelli O'Hara and Brian Dennehy join The New York Philharmonic for Lerner and Loewe's classic

Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey's uninspired telling of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous is done in by Rick Lombardo's misdirection

Newlyweds Matt and Jessica (nee Boevers) Bogart star in The Paper Mill's production of Keith Herrman and Barry Harman's sly-humored and tuneful double feature

R.C. Sherriff's 1928 wartime drama is thoroughly gripping in director David Grindley's production.

To see Andrea Marcovicci live in performance is to truly experience the difference between merely a great singer and a great cabaret artist.

'I write plays for people who hate theatre,' says playwright Doug Stone. Well, if I had to spend my time watching plays of the embarrassingly low quality of his Tupperware comedy it wouldn't be long before I fit comfortably within his desired demographic.

Director Tina Landau adds her own twist to J.M. Barrie's story of a vanishing young miss

With its depictions of men controlling women's fashions, sexual politics and warnings of a rising economic force in the Middle East, Harley Granville-Barker's drama, getting a fine and stately production at The Mint Theatre, is one of those plays that inspires musty old sayings like 'It's as relevant today as it was back then.'