Actor and Playwright John Cariani (currently starring on Broadway in the musical Something Rotten!) talks about writing his play Almost, Maine, one of the most popular and widely produced scripts in the U.S. Among many surprises,

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival recently announced “Play On!”, their project to create “translations” of all of Shakespeare’s plays, working with thirty-six contemporary playwrights and dramaturges, which will serve as companions to the original texts.

The most recent addition to the Reduced Shakespeare Company, Jason Ryan Lovett, talks about his dream roles, his acting background, the differences between knowing your lines on stage and in your kitchen, transposing pop-culture characters into Shakesp...

Before he was an actor, director, master carpenter, and Jeff Award-winning rigger, Isaac Schoepp (top left) performed as a juggler with the Fitz Family Ministries, touring the country with a company made up of his father, his mother, and his siblings.

If Yogi Berra hadn’t existed, some writer would have had to create him. Arguably one of the greatest catchers, and certainly the greatest character to ever play the game, Yogi died recently at the age of 90 and in addition to being one of the greatest ...

Emmy-nominated Casting Director Sandi Logan (Cristela, Monk, Boomtown, several tours for the Reduced Shakespeare Company) talks about the business of casting film and television, and the alleged 'Crisis in American Acting' (find the link to the essay tha

RSC actor Jeff Marlow (who's also a proud member of Actors Equity, the union representing stage actors and stage managers) helps walk us through the current controversy in LA involving 99-seat theatres. Jeff explains both sides of the issue, offers the b

You may not have heard of them but TJ & Dave are the gods of improvisation, and they've written a book about what they do called Improvisation at the Speed of Life. Dave Pasquesi (who you may recognize from the films Groundhog Day and Angels and Demo

We remember Leonard Nimoy this week (who passed away February 27, 2015) with the man who literally wrote the history of the Federation, David A. Goodman. In addition to writing on Star Trek: Enterprise, David worked with Nimoy on the famous episode of F

Only two months late comes our second annual round-up of the Top Ten most downloaded episodes of the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast in 2014. Featuring not-so-surprising appearances by the UK cast of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged); co