Michael C. O'Day

At some point, this will end.  New York City had no deaths from COVID-19 yesterday, for the first time since this ordeal began.  Eventually the rest of this country will…

An update from last week, Constant Reader: despite the barrage of distractions (including the quite literal barrage of illegal fireworks outside my apartment), I made my deadlines.  The made-for-Zoom one-act…

Finally a measure of progress to report, Constant Reader, at least for myself.  (Progress in the rest of the world sadly does not appear to be forthcoming.) The play I’ve…

We’ve all been there. I didn’t really experience it in college, because my shows were all fairly well attended.  (It helps putting up classics in an institution dedicated to classical…

Over the past few weeks there have been a whole slew of conversations, sparked by recent demonstrations and unrest, about structural and systemic racism in the American theater.  There’s been…

I can remember a series of summers in the late seventies, when I was a young boy.  My teenage neighbors were among the first of the so-called “latchkey kids,” left…

I lived in Minneapolis for a few years, a long time ago. I lived primarily in Dinkytown, the area surrounding the University of Minnesota.  I was in a graduate program…

In some alternate timeline where history was less interesting, where basic science was widely believed by the population and pandemic response was handled competently, this past Tuesday would have been…

Dead Playwrights Society, my now-weekly, now-Zooming classics reading series, finally tackled Hamlet yesterday.  The whole darn thing.  Four hours of reading the uncut text.  Ordinarily, since it is a reading…

Well, it finally happened. I forgot to write today's blog post. I mean, that's technically not true - you're reading this, and it came from somewhere. (I don't have access…