Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 418. The Wuzhen Festival
December 08, 2014

Alli Bostedt, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor discuss their recent appearance at the Wuzhen Festival, and the adventures surrounding our four performances. Featuring running around, limping around, driving around, the joys of subtitling, the subtleties

Episode 417. Comedy Cast Notes
December 01, 2014

Chad Yarish and Dan Saski, two of the original cast members of the workshop production of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), attended the first performance of the West Coast Premiere of the RSC production at the Marin Theatre Company, and shared t

Episode 416: Bay Area Roots
November 24, 2014

The Reduced Shakespeare Company (as well as Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor) return to their Bay Area roots this week as they begin a month-long of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, CA. Featuring things

Episode 415. Dudes Talkin’ Comedy
November 17, 2014

Paul Harris, host of "The Biggest Little Morning Show in the Afternoon" on the Big 550 KTRS in St. Louis, chats with Dominic Conti and Austin Tichenor about The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), and gets us to reveal forgotten lines, the evolution of

Episode 414. Bob Mondello Talkback
November 10, 2014

National Public Radio film critic Bob Mondello joined us onstage at the Reston Center Stage on the final night of our ten-day seven-show Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Appropriately enough, our closing performa

Episode 413. Acting On Camera
November 03, 2014

Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, and Dominic Conti share lessons learned (sometimes the hard way) about acting for film and television. Featuring tales from the sets of 24, The Practice, Ally McBeal, and The West Wing; expert advice from Michael Caine, Ben

Episode 412. ‘Martian American’ Dude
October 26, 2014

Our own Dominic Conti talks about his title role in Martian American, which just won Best Student Film at the Glendale International Film Festival, and for which Dom won Best Actor at the same event! Dom shares the tricks of portraying this particular a

Episode 411. Meet Shannon Cochran
October 20, 2014

Shannon Cochran is one of the great American actresses: she did the national tour of August: Osage County and created the role of Agnes in Bug (both by Tracy Letts); she’s played a variety of roles in (nerd alert!) six episodes (plus a movie!) of d

Episode 410. Final Lost Works
October 13, 2014

LIVE! From the Reston Center in Virginia comes the third and final episode of extracts from the evening of Lost Works from The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor play excerpts from th

Episode 409. More Lost Works
October 06, 2014

LIVE! From Reston, VA, comes Part Two of our excerpts from the evening of Lost Works from The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor welcome RSC alumni Matt Croke and Dee Ryan as they dis