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

Episodes

Total: 305

The Web Opera

2019/7/22

Our friend Michael Roth has composed the music for, and produced the film of, The Web Opera, a form-

Peter Marks, theatre critic of the Washington Post and co-host of American Theatre magazine's T

Weird Old Man

2019/7/9

Charlie Christmas’s new album, Weird Old Man, is your perfect summertime jam! A veteran of many band

History of Vaudeville

2019/7/1

To paraphrase Ken Burns, the story of Vaudeville is the story of America. And as we head into the 4t

Dueling Chicago Hamlets

2019/6/25

Chicago is lousy with Hamlets this spring/summer of 2019! Friend of the pod Samuel Taylor was involv

Fighting Writers Block

2019/6/18

Mya Gosling is the creator and artist behind GoodTickleBrain, the world’s greatest (and possibly onl

Courting Mr. Lincoln

2019/6/11

Louis Bayard is the author of such novels as Mr. Timothy, Roosevelt’s Beast, and The Pale Blue Eye,

Samuel Taylor is the co-founder of the Back Room Shakespeare Project, the author of My Life with the

The Winter’s Tale

2019/5/27

Dramaturg Neena Arndt and actor Nathan Hosner (Polixenes) discuss The Winter's Tale, currently

Balancing Twelfth Night

2019/5/22

We continue the conversation with Professor Katy Reedy and her class at Lake Forest College, taking

Discussing Twelfth Night

2019/5/14

Professor Katy Reedy invited our own Austin Tichenor to speak to her class at Lake Forest College ab

Other Famous Prequels

2019/5/7

With Hamlet's Big Adventure (a prequel) now being workshopped by Napa Valley College as part of

High School Bard

2019/4/30

"Friend of the pod" Daisy Tichenor talks about her wonderfully Shakespearean senior year in high sch

It's the comedy of the prince of Denmark! Hamlet's Big Adventure (a prequel) will be the e

One Camera. One Actor. One Bard. Joshua Dylan Mellars is the director of the new film Shakespeare In

Theatre Communications Group exists to strengthen, nurture, and promote professional theatre in the

Mary Poppins Kerfuffle

2019/4/2

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a professor of English at Linfield College and regular contributor to The Ne

The Viola Project

2019/3/26

The Viola Project is an organization in Chicago dedicated to training and empowering young women usi

New York Times best-selling author Jasper Fforde returns to talk about his new novel Early Riser, a

August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is getting an amazing production right now at the