Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 601. More Lauren Gunderson
June 18, 2018

Playwright Lauren Gunderson continues the conversation we began with her last November 2017, talking about her amazing play The Book of Will, a valentine about the creation of the First Folio, the first collection of all (most) of Shakespeare's plays i...

Episode 600! American Theatre Magazine
June 11, 2018

For this milestone episode, we talk to the journal of record for the American theatre industry: American Theatre magazine. Managing Editor Russell Dembin and Associate Editor Allison Considine discuss the magazine's origins, its operations,

Episode 599. Coming And Going
May 28, 2018

Five RSC actors -- Reed Martin, Dan Saski, Teddy Spencer, Austin Tichenor, and Chad Yarish -- performed at Pittsburgh Public Theatre this opening preview weekend. Over beer, wings, and fried pickles, Dan, Teddy, Chad,

Episode 598. Returning to Pittsburgh
May 28, 2018

We're honored to be performing William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged) here at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre as the final production of outgoing artistic director Ted Pappas' 17-year tenure. Actors and playwrights/directors Reed Martin an...

Episode 597. Lady Macbeth Herself
May 21, 2018

Chaon Cross plays Lady Macbeth in the exciting and literally magical production of the Scottish play directed by Aaron Posner and Teller in the current production at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and discusses the challenges of finding the balance b...

Episode 596. Nicole Galland’s D.O.D.O.
May 14, 2018

Friend of the podcast, novelist Nicole Galland (I, Iago), has co-authored (with Neal Stephenson) a wonderful sci-fi time-travel thriller-comedy called The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "a high-stakes techno-farce wi...

Episode 595. Alli & Davey
May 07, 2018

Our long-time friends and colleagues Alli Bostedt and Davey Naylor were married last Friday, May the 4th (Be With You), 2018, in the Sebastiani Theatre in Sonoma, CA (where we filmed The Complete History of America (abridged)) and,

Episode 594. ‘Caged’ World Premiere
April 30, 2018

We've talked on this podcast about theatre and Shakespeare in prisons, but we've never heard about theatre created by the incarcerated or formerly incarcerated outside prisons. Director and teaching artist Jerrell L.

Episode 593. Best Shakespeare Play
April 22, 2018

The We Got This! Podcast, created and hosted by Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi, settles such important and earth-shattering cultural debates as what is the Best Donut, the Best Toilet Paper, and Best Muppet. But recently,

Episode 592. Christopher Moore’s ‘Noir’
April 16, 2018

Christopher Moore, the author of such wonderful comic novels as Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal; Fool; The Serpent of Venice; The Stupidest Angel; Bloodsucking Fiends; Practical Demonkeeping; Sacre Bleu, and many others,