Michael C. O'Day

If there’s been one recurrent motif in my blog posts over the last few years, Constant Reader, it’s been me taking talk that “the pandemic is over! Theater is back!”…

It’s been a quiet weekend here in New York City.  The weather has been sunny and cool, the exact sort of end-of-winter days that tease the promise of a happy…

Well, it’s that time of year again, Constant Reader – time for me to blog about this year’s Academy Awards ceremony despite not viewing it on television, or having watched…

So there I was.  My latest short play, Basic Cable Method Acting, had enjoyed a successful opening performance.  I’d just posted the blog post from last week announcing that fact. …

Well, we’re up and running.  My new short play Basic Cable Method Acting had its debut performance on Sunday, at the Secret Theatre in Woodside, Queens.  It’s presented as part…

Progress on my short play Basic Cable Method Acting, which is set to be presented in the upcoming Queens Short Play Festival, is coming at a nice and steady pace. …

They tell you as an actor that as soon as you’ve left the audition room, you should forget about it and move on to the next thing.  It makes sense;…

The day is finally at hand, Constant Reader.  Today - Monday February 6, the day I post this - marks the first read-thru (via Zoom) of my new short play,…

We seem to have sentenced all the remote plays written over the past three years to oblivion, that we may never again be reminded of the pandemic which is obviously…