2,344 stories by "Michael Dale"
"The day you looked at me. Really looked at me. That's the day I was born. I hated myself till you."
Healthy relationships aren't exactly the cornerstone of playwright John Patrick Shanley'…
The good news"actually the very splendid news"is that The York Theatre Company, which has been spending decades developing new musicals, has granted a very handsome world premiere production…
There seems to be a developing trend on the New York stages where audiences witness women characters deconstructing stage classics written by men, focusing on underdeveloped feminist aspects.
"Hey. Not in a weird way or... Well, not weird like... I just mean not like... Not like that, but... I love you, okay?"
Hopefully, things have improved since then, but when I was a high sch…
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
For my fellow non-literary types, this is what playwright Kirk Lynn…
I've attended a lot of immersive theatre in my close to fifty years of playgoing, but none of it has come close to the participatory nature of Sour Milk's theatrical game Dirt, which casts a…
"I love writing music in the way of being a storyteller about my personal life. Just like my influences... ya know, the greats, the classics. Like Sabrina Carpenter," explains singer/songwri…
"Today there won't be any singing or dancing, no green flying witches on brooms, no giant projection screens magnifying my every micro-expression," says Julie Ridge to open Bipolar & the Eng…
Back in 1928, Virginia Woolf chose to subtitle her fictional fantasy "Orlando" as a biography, chronicling the life of an Elizabethan boy who lives for hundreds of years and, somewhere along…
"Black women, you know how you have had to show and prove. Your authenticity has been challenged if you don't hit that Jennifer Holliday or Jennifer Hudson note just right. That Aretha note.…
"The Midwestern urge to keep a friendly conversation going by any means possible is a powerful motivator," explains Wisconsin-raised New York playwright Sophie McIntosh in the press script p…
"I made my New York debut on this very stage, in a play where I portrayed a boy who wanted to become a woman," explains playwright/actor Darwin Del Fabro in the Author's Note included in the…
One of the real gems to be found on YouTube is a collection of full episodes of "The Nat King Cole Show," which premiered on NBC in November of 1956. Originally a 15-minute program, then exp…
"Slim pickings of a post-pandemic industry," is the way an actor describes her current gig in the early moments of Christin Eve Cato's very funny, very topical, and very urgent O.K.!, the ne…
"I make something where there was nothing," says the world famous American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein to the equally world famous Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan in Pete…
If you stay still for a moment in the fictional town serving as the setting for Julián Mesri's mystical adventure, The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics, you may hear the soothing sound …
"This is the part of my story I really don't want to talk about," says rebelliously queer and creatively anti-patriarchal music artist Bitch about two-thirds into her funny, touching, and ag…
When you walk into the cell theatre for a performance of Cate Wiley's exploration of the day to day lives of women in America experiencing homelessness, Sheltered, and I thoroughly recommend…
When the Duke of York refers to Queen Margaret of Anjou as the She-Wolf of France in William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part III, it isn't exactly a compliment. "How ill-beseeming is it in thy …
The first somewhat off-putting moment playwright Kallan Dana sprinkles into her engaging mixture of naturalism, surrealism, and buddy story titled Racecar Racecar Racecar arrives less than t…
When New Jersey's St. William Academy All Girls' Catholic School holds auditions for Romeo and Juliet, 17-year-old Ellie and her best friend Britt just assume they'll be cast in the title ro…
As Anton Chekhov wrote, if the title song of a musical is interrupted with a legal disclaimer regarding the use of copyrighted material, the first act had better end with a cease and desist …
"Content warning for like, everything. Really sorry. This play's really gross," advises playwright Riley Elton McCarthy in the press script provided to reviewers of their psychological Grand…
'This is an unscripted show. I have no idea what I'm going to do,' the internationally acclaimed composer and pianist Yanni tells his audience at the outset of his debut Broadway performance.
'I guess I want you to play the most beautiful music ever written and dedicate it to us,' a hopeful romantic requests of the radio station he's phoned from his date's apartment.
