Novelist Russel McLean (right) talks about his new novel And When I Die and reveals both surprising influences and his fascination with extended families with dark secrets. Featuring Glasgow’s answer to the Corleones, shifting perspectives,

With just a little more than a month to go before the 2016 Presidential Election, we discuss what it’s like to be performing The Complete History of America (abridged): Election Edition across the country. Featuring old friends, big tours,

  Rachel Parris (right) is one of the performers in Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel, which performs in London, Edinburgh, and around the UK, and she talks about how one goes about improvising this beloved British author.

John Horn (left) is the host of KPCC’s The Frame, a daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts and entertainment. Trained in the theatre at the University of California at Berkeley, John was a showbiz journalist for the Associated Press,

The definitive “Audio Newspaper for a Visual World™,” The Bugle Podcast is one of the seminal achievements in the annals of journalism and political satire. Comedian Andy Zaltzman (right) talks about The Bugle’s creation and his long-time partnership w...

Actor, singer, improviser, comedian, and radio personality Tim Fitzhigham talks about the connections between some of his ancestors and a young dramatic poet (and possible Catholic) named William Shakespeare.

On this, the last day of the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor, and Teddy Spencer reflect on the favorite shows they saw this year, expressing delight at the highlights and disappointment in the lowlights.

In July 2016, we taught theatre workshops and directed a reduced version of Midsummer Night’s Dream in Beijing, China. Hosted by Tin House Productions, who is producing our three-week Chinese tour later this year,

University of Warwick doctoral candidate Ronan Hatfull returns to discuss the journey he made with his father David along the Shakespeare Walk, the path we think William Shakespeare might have made as he walked from Stratford to London.

At the end of the first week of our return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the European premiere of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged), we confer about how we’re going to spend our remaining time here and what … Continue reading →