Michael C. O'Day

This past week, for the first time in fifteen months, I set foot inside a theater. I wasn’t there to see a show; New York may be recovering from the…

The day finally came, Constant Reader.  After fifteen months of the Quarantimes, trying to conduct my entire life from the laptop on my desk in my Brooklyn apartment, I finally…

I should know better; Twitter has become a means of coarsening dialogue and spreading disinformation and propaganda, and is directly responsible for the political upheavals and general insanity for the…

I don’t want to jinx anything. Since the start of the Quarantimes last March, the Tuesdays at Nine cold reading series for which I serve as co-Creative Director and co-host…

Nature is healing, Constant Reader, or at least submission opportunities are starting to appear after over a year of theatrical inactivity.  My plan for this past weekend – one of…

I finished up my most recent writing project last weekend, Constant Reader.  (At least as far as the rough draft – the re-writing, as we all know, never stops.) A…

This past Friday, April 30, was Walpurgisnacht.  The night before May Day, folklore and tradition has long held it to be the night of a grand Witches’ Sabbath.  In literature,…

I haven’t exactly been watching a lot of movies these days.  There haven’t been a lot of opportunities to go to the movies, of course – in case you’re unaware,…

It was announced with great fanfare a few weeks ago, on one of those rare occasions where our governor and mayor deign to appear on the same stage as one…

There may still not be any theatrical productions to speak of taking place, Constant Reader – in case it’s somehow skipped your attention, I’ll remind you to take all possible…