Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 428. The Artist Rolls
February 17, 2015

Have you ever wanted to analyze an artist’s work through random roles of a twenty-sided Dungeons & Dragons die? Of course not! But that’s exactly what Jamie Gower and Sean Mitchell do on their podcast The Artist Rolls. This week we hear excerpts and o

Episode 427. Designers Getting ‘Craftsy’
February 09, 2015

Things We Love this Valentine's Week...or more precisely, Getting Paid for Doing Things We Love. Costume Designer and Fashion Educator Judy Jackson teaches online courses at Craftsy.com, and shares the experience of (ahem) reducing her full-length clas

Episode 426. Marin Theatre Company
February 02, 2015

Jasson Minadakis is the Artistic Director of one of our favorite hometown Bay Area theaters, the Marin Theatre Company, and he talks with us candidly about his work, our work, and MTC's place in both the Bay Area and the national conversation. Featuring

Episode 425. UK Comedy Openings
January 26, 2015

After a long week of tech and a weekend of opening performances, our 81-city UK tour of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) is finally underway. Actors Gary Fannin, Matt Pearson, Andrew Hodges, and Steven Rostance talk about the process that got us

Episode 424. Comedy’s Seriously Funny
January 19, 2015

Austin Tichenor talks about The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) with Julie Motz, host of Arts Desire on KWMR in Point Reyes, California. Featuring some great laughs, “incisive political commentary,” surprising poignancy, a terrible hint ab

Episode 423. UK Comedy Fools
January 11, 2015

As is tradition, this week we come to you Live! from the Bedford, our rehearsal pub in Balham ("the Gateway to the South"), to meet and chat with the new cast of the 2015 UK tour of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged). Cast members Gary Fannin, Matt

Episode 422. Dean Of Comedy
January 04, 2015

Steve Smith is the former dean of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown College, director of the Big Apple Circus, and has forgotten more about comedy than we'll ever know. In discussing his career and thoughts about comedy, Steve touches on

Episode 421. Returning To Theatre
December 29, 2014

For this last podcast of 2014, a tale of triumph (or depending on your point of view, tragedy). Longtime RSC fan Lizabeth Stanley tells her story of discovering the theatre, leaving the theatre, and finally returning to theatre armed with nothing but des

Episode 420. Satan Sings Sondheim
December 22, 2014

No, not Santa -- Satan. For this most festive time of year, we present news of RSC founding member Adam Long's most recent project, Satan Sings Mostly Sondheim, the script of which has just been published by The Sondheim Review. At the Review's request,

Episode 419. Choice Table Comments
December 16, 2014

After every performance, we go out to a table in the lobby and greet the audience, and are always greeted in return with the most amazing (and sometimes amusing) comments. This week we share the various thoughts we've heard over the years (and over the c