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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

The world’s longest-running theatre podcast, which Broadway World calls “one of the Top

Episodes

Total: 305

Darren Freebury-Jones's fascinating new book, Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers: How early modern

Ring Reduced Remembered

2024/11/12

It's the Podcast's 18th birthday! Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, and Adam Long celebrate th

Playing Bilbo Baggins

2024/11/5

Fresh off its successful run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale

Tamara Harvey, the new co-artistic director of the "other" RSC – the Royal Shakespeare Company – dis

Director Malkia Stampley, whose beautiful production of Eboni Booth's 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winni

Charlotte Booker discusses her show Elsa Lanchester: She's Alive!, which celebrates the great c

In this new edition of Great Moments with Mr. Bakula, the former captain of the Enterprise and famou

Salic Law Speech

2024/9/30

Artistic director Edward Hall's production of Henry V at Chicago Shakespeare Theater includes t

West Texas Weirs

2024/9/24

Actor and comedian Stephnie Weir (Mad TV, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) discusses the origins of her one-woma

They keep writing American history so we have to keep reducing it! Playwrights Reed Martin and Austi

Novelist Louis Bayard’s new book The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts, depicts the fateful weekend in 18

Writer and actor Mitchell Bisschop discusses his new one-man show Royko: The Toughest Man in Chicago

Remembering Jerry Kernion

2024/8/27

We remember longtime RSC colleague Jerry Kernion, who passed away last week after a short illness. J

Director Sara Holdren

2024/8/19

Sara Holdren is not just one of the best theatre critics out there, she's a director as well wh

Tools Not Rules

2024/8/13

Actor, director, and educator Rob Myles, co-creator of The Show Must Go Online, talks about how adhe

The best of America comes to Chicago this month as Dee Ryan (The Office, Second City, the RSC's

Playwright Alice Scovell (The Rewards of Being Frank) discusses her new comedy Kindred Spirits, a se

Anne Curzan Says

2024/7/23

Linguistics professor and podcast host Anne Curzan talks about her new book Says Who? A Kinder, Funn

Lili-Anne Brown directs the fabulously funny and moving Writers Theatre production of Katori Hall&#0

Independent Shakespeare Company celebrates its 20th anniversary of producing free Shakespeare in the