"Barnum"    
 
   Directed by Joe Layton   St. James Theatre    New York 1981

" Jim Dale is Toast of Broadway, 
his performance was a display 
of consummate showmanship"  
 
Reviewer  Michiko Kakutani    “New York Times”

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"Jim Dale is a one-man, three-ring, four star circus. 
He is a knockout, a great performer. 
Many comedians pratfall, but Dale freefalls!"
   
Reviewer   Clive Barnes    “New York Post”

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Is there anything that Jim Dale can't do? 
Last night he roared into town in this new musical 
and showed off enough tricks 
to make all but a Houdini dizzy. 
He transforms a gargantuan circus of a show 
into his own joyous playground."

Reviewer    Frank Rich     New York Times

"The National Health"
    
   Directed by Michael Blakemore  Nat Theatre, Old Vic, London 1971   
                                                                                        
"As the play began, a curly-haired scarecrow of an actor 
danced out onto the stage,  
and proceeded to do an outrageous vaudeville routine
 about cadavers and bedpans, about doctors and death. 
Wearing an oversize orderly's smock 
he darted all over the set, 
pinching nurses and twirling hospital carts, 
lobbing his lines like hand grenades 
into every pocket of the theatre.
And improbable as it sounds 
he made his macabre spiel seem funny. 
In a matter of minutes a grim National Health ward 
started to look like a circus. 
The audience knew that it was in the presence 
of a galvanic talent. 
His name - I committed it to memory at once - 
Jim Dale"  
   
Reviewer   Frank Rich  New York Times

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"Then there is the incomparable Jim Dale as Barnet, 
I'm not sure Mr. Dale isn't the best comic actor Britain has."
 
Reviewer  B.A. Young , London Financial Times

"The Comedians"   

Mark Taper Forum L.A.

“And it is actor Jim Dale's garishly physical, 
socially assaulting semi-mime and wholly private, 
demon-fed performance of a talent so individual 
and brilliantly frightening that momentarily bedazzles
 this otherwise ensemble production"  

Reviewer     Ray Loynd   “ L.A. Herald Examiner” 

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"Jim Dale's galvanic stage presence 
as the most gifted of the students Gethin Price, 
reaches it's climax in the second act. 
It begins humorously, ends violently, 
and is throughout brilliant."

Reviewer   Patricia Burr     “South Pasadena Review”

"Joe Egg"  

   Directed by Arvin Brown  Long Acre Theatre, New York

"Performers are supposed to appreciate fine acting 
more than civilians, so I'd advise you to beg, 
borrow or steal any available ticket to "Joe Egg". 
Jim Dale and Stockard Channing are giving 
the best performances of their career. 
Their performances are a lesson and example 
to actors of every caliber."  
 
Reviewer   Michael Sommers       "Backstage" 

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 Welcome the arrival of "Joe Egg" 
starring the spectacular duo of 
Stockard Channing and Jim Dale. 
I have seen many people play the role of Bri, 
but no one has quite encompassed its range, 
from rage to impotence, 
from mockery to despair, like Dale .
He is matched at every point 
by the wonderful loving  
Miss Channing. 
You won't see better performances this season."  

Reviewer   Clive Barnes      New York Post

  “Privates on Parade” 
  
  "Given a vital actor like Jim Dale, 
and an audience will know instantly that it is 
experiencing theater in the best 
and most magical sense of the word. 
For however long we've been dutifully going to the theater, 
hoping and hoping (and failing) to see the real thing, 
we recognize it at once when it appears. 
For Mr. Dale, 'Privates on Parade' is an acting coup......"