Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 378. Evaluating The Best
March 03, 2014

With the Academy Awards looming, Dominic Conti, Jerry Kernion, and Austin Tichenor take a break from the technical rehearsal of All The Great Books (abridged) at Laguna Playhouse to talk about the whole horse race of choosing "best" actors and movies. Fea

Episode 377. By The Numbers
February 23, 2014

Playwright, director, and comedy nerd/scholar/author Gary Rudoren discusses his very funny book Comedy By The Numbers: The 169 Secrets of Humor and Popularity (co-written with Eric Hoffman). Featuring more talking in pubs, parental influences, the road to

Episode 376. Playing The Fool
February 17, 2014

Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough discusses playing the Fool in the National Theatre production of King Lear, starring Simon Russell Beale and directed by Sam Mendes, and shares the challenges of interpreting the role, his initial reluctanc

Episode 375. The Bible Boys
February 10, 2014

LIVE! from the touring van comes — finally — our audio introduction to the cast of the current (2014) three-month sixty-city UK tour of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged). Gary Fannin, William Meredith, Richard Ede, and David Ellis talk ab

Episode 374. Talkback in Newtownabbey
February 01, 2014

The long awaited and briefly-banned performances of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) went ahead as scheduled this week at Theatre at the Mill in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, and we hosted a public Q&A session afterwards to talk about the

Episode 373. (NOT) Banned in Newtownabbey
January 26, 2014

(NOTE: On 27 January, 2014, less than 24 hours after this was posted, the artistic council of the theatre reversed its ban and the Newtownabbey Borough Council voted to uphold the artistic leadership of the theatre. Still - enjoy.) In a move that has put

Episode 372. There’s Always One
January 20, 2014

Even in the middle of a hugely successful run like we had at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (where our production of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) sold more single tickets than any production in their 2014-2015 season except for A Christmas

Episode 371. University Theatre Degrees
January 13, 2014

As school resumes for the winter session, we talk to Stephen Skiles, Director of Theatre at Xavier University in Ohio. Stephen was part of the team that created Xavier's brand-new (as of 2013) BA Degree in Theatre and shares with us the experience and ph

Episode 370. Meeting Mike McShane
January 06, 2014

Let's ring in the new year with an old friend! Improv legend (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) and TV (Doctor Who; Brotherly Love) and film (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; A Bug's Life) veteran Mike McShane talks about his wildly eventful life and shares tales a

Episode 369. 2013′s Top Podcasts
December 30, 2013

Are you dying to know what the ten most popular episodes of the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast were in 2013? Hope so! For this final podcast of the year, we hear excerpts from the ten most-downloaded podcasts of the last twelve months. Featuring insi