Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 398. ‘Salesman’ Behind Bars
July 20, 2014

Last year, Kate Powers told us of her work doing Theatre In Prisons with Rehabilitation Through The Arts. This week Kate returns to tell us of her recent production of Death of a Salesman at Fishkill Correctional Facility, which restored much-needed urg

Episode 397. Science Fiction Theatre
July 14, 2014

Science fiction as a genre isn't particularly well-represented in the theatre, but playwright Michael Bernard is hoping to change all that. His play Alien The Family was recently presented at Sci-Fest: The Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival

Episode 396. Singing ‘Shakespeare’s Fool’
July 07, 2014

In addition being an on-air personality at KX 93.5 in Laguna Beach, CA, Jason Feddy is the singer/songwriter/composer and performer of Shakespeare's Fool, an amazing collection of songs drawn from the Shakespearean canon. Around excerpts from the wonderf

Episode 395. Being Child Actors
June 30, 2014

We've been called childish actors, but Caroline Heffernan and John Francis Babbo, are actual child actors, two members of the six-actor cast of the Lookingglass Theatre Company world premiere production of In The Garden: A Darwinian Love Story. Hear t

Episode 394. Characters Of Faith
June 23, 2014

The character of Emma Darwin in In The Garden: A Darwinian Love Story (by Sara Gmitter) is that apparent rarity: a character of faith in a movie, play, or TV show who isn't portrayed as a bully or a crazy zealot. Rebecca Spence (left, with Andy White),

Episode 393. Multi-Tasking Actors
June 16, 2014

Ah, the fun and sometimes the necessity of doing it all! Andy White, artistic director of Lookingglass Theatre Company, and Cindy Gold, Professor of Theatre and Head of Acting at Northwestern University, are both successful and award-winning actors who ta

Episode 392. Podcast For Larissa
June 09, 2014

We dedicate the podcast this week to one of our favorite fans, Larissa from Australia, who's unable to travel to see us. Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, Matt Croke, Dominic Conti, Michael Faulkner, Jerry Kernion, Mick Orfe, Dustin Sullivan, Jeff Marlow,

Episode 391. The Director’s Job
June 03, 2014

Jessica Thebus teaches Directing at Northwestern University and has directed classics and world premieres across the country at such theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Huntington Theatre in Boston, the Kennedy Center, Steppenwolf, the Goodman, a

Episode 390. Bible Tour Memories
May 27, 2014

Our controversial and highly successful UK and Ireland tour of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) recently came to a close, and producer Davey Naylor, wardrobe mistress Penny Ayles, and cast members Richard Ede, William Meredith, David Ellis,

Episode 389. Jacques Lamarre’s Journey
May 19, 2014

From the box office to the Vatican to drag queens (oh my)! Jacques Lamarre has not had a typical journey to becoming a playwright, yet his most recent work I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti is being produced around the country, including at one of our fav