DAY 21
The frenzy of pandemic is unleashed. Daycare is closed You're working from home. And your husband goes AWOL. How does illness lay bare the fragility of our lives?
A new play: Day 21 . Produced by Paula D'Alessandris and Mind The Gap Theatre .
Featuring Cathy Conneff.
"Actor Cathy Conneff turns in a stunning performance of DC playwright Richard Byrne’s Day 21." -- DC Theatre Scene
An Evening
with Lola Montez
World premiere:
July 2019 at the Capital Fringe Festival
Three Suitcases
Semifinalist
2019 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference
New York 1939: A landscape of political refuges, growing fascism, and attempts to rewrite history.
Nero/Pseudo
"[A] bona-fide hit musical, from the pen of Richard Byrne." - Broadway World
"... a fun romp that effortlessly links ancient themes of imperial deification & the 20th century cult of rock and roll." - MD Theatre Guide
Recent Writing
How did the streets of Hong Kong become a teeming laboratory for protest in a surveillance state?
“I think that we can get a lot from Lonely Crusade in our exact political moment,” says Lawrence P. Jackson, author of a new biography of Chester Himes.
Ivan Sviták, the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 -- and the continuing relevance of his thought in a post-truth age.
Exploring "weaponized interdependence" and how global networks shape foreign policy with scholars Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman.
How the Velvet Revolution - and an American grad student - sparked a classic book by Bohumil Hrabal.
An interview with the Ernst Toller Gesellschaft on the relationship between art and politics in Toller's work, and his continuing importance.
The connections between the 1919 victory of Munich revolutionaries at Dachau & the Nazi creation of a death camp there in 1933.
A conversation with one of America's great actors - John Astin - about teaching a new generation the tricks of the trade.
