Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 611. Burbage to Burbage
Kevin Kenerly is a 22-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is currently playing Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will (after having played Burbage in Shakespeare in Love in 2017).
Episode 610. ‘Western Civ’ Lives!
Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire is producing our rarely-seen show Western Civilization: The Complete Musical (abridged), which we created in 1998 under its original title The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged).
Episode 609. Well-Intentioned Director’s Guide
Director Nate Cohen is in his second year of Northwestern University’s MFA Directing program and recently created a cheeky — and slightly tongue-in-cheek — flowchart entitled “Should I Direct This Play (A Guide for Well-Intentioned Cis Het White Men).
Episode 608. Colonel Tom Parker
Our own Jerry Kernion is playing Colonel Tom Parker in the new jukebox musical Heartbreak Hotel, currently playing in Chicago and possibly soon on its way to a theatre near you. Jerry talks about playing this controversial person,
Episode 607. Getting To Edinburgh
How do you get to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? What's involved with producing yourself at the largest theatre festival in the world? Jamie Gower, the creator and star (sorry, operator) of Denny O'Hare: I Feel Fuzzy,
Episode 606. Composer Michael Roth
Composer and arranger Michael Roth has had a big summer, scoring not only the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles production of Henry IV starring Tom Hanks, and Pamplona, the one-man play about Ernest Hemingway, starring Stacy Keach,
Episode 605. The Actors Gymnasium
Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi is the artistic director and co-founder of The Actors Gymnasium, a physical theatre school with a huge emphasis on circus and telling stories through movement. A longtime collaborator with Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Th...
Episode 604. Cartoonist John Kovalic
Failed astrophysicist John Kovalic certainly landed on his feet, becoming not only a fantastic cartoonist and board game designer, but the creator of Dork Tower and Apples To Apples, illustrator of Munchkin Shakespeare,
Episode 603. Value Of Limitations
The script for William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged) has now been published in the US (after having been published in the UK earlier this year) and this week we talk about how the various limitations we've encountered -- physical,
Episode 602. Broadway’s Fight Guy
Friend of the podcast Tom Schall talks about how he's become Broadway's Fight Guy (or, truthfully, one of them), the go-to person to design fight choreography and tell a story using actors' physical language.