Actor-Writer Michael McHale (Searching For Robert Hennessey): "I Would Just Look For Magical Things All The Time"

DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley · Apr 30, 2026 · 1h 8m

Dennis is joined via Zoom by actor-writer Michael McHale to talk about his one-person show Searching For Robert Hennessey, which recounts the decades-long search Michael went on for his biological father after his single mother told him the man's name on his 18th birthday. It's an odyssey that involves making out with a guy he met at the Eagle and discovering they may be related, spending years in--and then escaping from--a Christian cult, being diagnosed with HIV/AID and never giving up the hunt, although he wanted to many times. Michael also talks about what it was like to grow up in the…