Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
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Episode 408. RSC’s Lost Works
LIVE! From the Reston Center Stage's Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza comes this evening of Lost Works: readings, films, TV pilots, radio bits, and jokes so good they demanded to be cut from our shows. Featuring e
Episode 407. Executing the Extravaganza
The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza at the Center Stage of Reston Community Center was a massive undertaking and an unabridged success, due in large measure to three ladies: Alli Bostedt, Elaine Randolph, and Lind
Episode 406. Reduced Touring Origins
One of the highlights of the first weekend of The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza at the Reston Community Center was a very special Q&A with founding RSC members Daniel Singer and Jess and Sa Winfield, who told t
Episode 405. Reduced Radio Show
The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show was a six-part radio series we wrote and recorded for the BBC World Service back in 1992, and this week, by request, we reminisce about its creation. Featuring optimistic titling, exclusive excerpts, a special appearance
Episode 404. The Scottish Effect
Novelists Alexandra Sokoloff (American) and Craig Robertson (Scot) discuss how living in Scotland inspires their work. Featuring thin boundary issues, chasing markets, how art imitates life, so-called "monster-boning", the differences between Glasgow and
Episode 403. The Reston Extravaganza
Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor announce an unprecedented event: The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza, produced by the Reston Community Center in Reston, VA, from September 12-21, 2014: seven shows in ten days, ap
Episode 402. The Pleasance Courtyard
LIVE! (ish) from the Pleasance Courtyard, the throbbing hub of theatrical activity here at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comes this collection of pitches from people selling some of the more than three thousand shows being performed this year. Featuring
Episode 401. Yisrael’s Three Conversions
Yisrael Campbell is just your run-of-the-mill Irish, Italian, Catholic, American, Reform, Conservative, and now Orthodox Jew, and he tells the story of his fascinating journey in "Circumcise Me", his funny and poignant one-man show currently playing at th
Episode 400. Edinburgh Fringe Festival
LIVE! From the Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh, Scotland comes this celebration of our 400th continuous week of podcasting and our return (after nine years) to the place that launched it all, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Join us as we adopt some foreig
Episode 399. The Second City
Second City's legacy informs every aspect of contemporary comedy (including many alumni who've performed with us) and this week Executive Vice President and President of Second City Theatricals Kelly Leonard gives us the reduced history of Second City'sÂ