Stage Write
stagewrite.bsky.social
Stage Write
@stagewrite.bsky.social
Dramatist.
HOTEL MAYFLOWER; CONGRESSMAN DAVY
More at: https://www.richardbyrneplays.com/ and https://stage-write.ghost.io/
Art, Memory, Evil, and Complicity in the Nazi film industry.

Watch THE DROWNED GIRL now on Fawesome TV.

Starring Annalisa Loeffler. Composed and directed by @drewsky.app. Produced by @schlchtmyr.bsky.social

Written by @stagewrite.bsky.social

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December 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In the neighborhood.
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This is immensely sad news.

Shepherd's star turn in Trevor Griffiths' BILL BRAND is blazing. (Mamdani should watch it.) His Brecht in Christopher Hampton's TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD was so satisfying. His writing was first-rate.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Canine wiles at a Maryland rest stop. Just make sure you're healthy.
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"... [W]e cannot embrace what Kryptos has become in this moment: a toxic intersection of secrecy and commodity."

My essay on why Jarett Kobek and myself said no to a share of auction proceeds and signing NDAs for the Kryptos auction.

stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonde...
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"A wealthy man acts like he can / box up a thousand stars
He'd auction off the sunset, too / if he could reach that far."

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News about CONGRESSMAN DAVY-my musical with Dean Schlabowske (Waco Brothers)-coming soon!

www.richardbyrneplays.com/congressman-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
On the hunt for "electrons."
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Verso's one-volume Deutscher biography of Trotsky is the only competition that comes to mind.
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM
As the Kryptos K4 auction imbroglio simmers, I answer two key questions: Why did Jarett Kobek and myself turn down money for our silence and refuse to sign NDAs?

Read my STAGE WRITE essay: "Not So Wonderful Things."

stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonde...
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For the past 10 weeks, I have been at the center of the Kryptos K4 auction imbroglio. But why did Jarett Kobek and myself turn down money for our silence and refuse to sign NDAs?

I explain it all in a new STAGE WRITE essay titled "Not So Wonderful Things."

stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonde...
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A classic quote from The Wire.
November 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Today's t-shirt.

Partizanka from Croatia's AntifaVjesnik Etsy Shop.

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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Because our film is now streaming, I have an IMDB page at last.

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November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
USAID Block Party, Arlington VA
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Never forget.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The second printing of the bilingual edition of my play HOTEL MAYFLOWER is now in stock. (English/German.)

Get your copy now!

European readers: www.sea-urchin.net/books/moloko...

US readers: ebay.us/m/PMCz86

Direct from Germany at Moloko: molokoplusrecords.de/finder.php?f...
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"Es gibt für mich ein Gesetz und das ist die Wahrheit."

Ödön von Horvath, Gebrauchsanweisung

("For me there is one law, and that one law is the truth.")
October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

(How about two?)
October 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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