Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


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Episode 348. International Clown Week
August 05, 2013

The first week of August is International Clown Week, which is even more appropriate this year as Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin are in the third week of rehearsals for the first workshop production of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged). Featuri

Episode 347. High School Censorship
July 30, 2013

Blogger, arts consultant, former theatre executive and now theatrical activist Howard Sherman talks about attempts to silence high school theatre productions across the country, and the growing efforts to respond appropriately and effectively. Featuring

Episode 346. Theatre In Prison
July 22, 2013

New York-based director Kate Powers talks about her recent production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town which she directed at the fabled maximum security Sing Sing Correctional Facility as part of her work with a program called Rehabilitation Through the Ar

Episode 345. To Kill Shakespeare
July 15, 2013

We sat down recently with Conor McCreery, the co-creator of the amazing graphic novel Kill Shakespeare, who talks about how a love of both comics and Shakespeare led him and his collaborators to create this highly praised and popular artistic/literary mas

Episode 344. UK Tour Update
July 09, 2013

LIVE! From inside Titus Vandronicus: UK producer Davey Naylor, actors Gary Fannin, Matt Rippy, Matt Pearson, Ben Stratton, and DSM Penny Ayles share the highlights and lowlights of our twelve-week spring tour of the UK. Featuring favorite venues, shout-o

Episode 343.5. July 4th Greeting
July 04, 2013

And now, for all you Americans out there, a special 4th of July greeting from our UK Producer and Production Manager Davey Naylor. (Length :04)

Episode 343. Celebrities Getting Served
July 01, 2013

Just in time for summer comes Bill Ryan's "Serving Celebrities: Stories of Your Favorite Celebrities From One Who Served Them" and it's the perfect beach read, filled with funny, revealing, unabashedly gossipy, and mildly bitchy tales of greatness and th

Episode 342. ‘Bible’ Down Under
June 24, 2013

Finally! We return to Australia, with RSC veterans Michael Faulkner, Jerry Kernion, Mick Orfe, and Dominic Conti performing The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) in Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, and Sydney. This week, playwrights

Episode 341. Development Of Comedy
June 17, 2013

Austin Tichenor and Reed Martin take time out from their writing to talk about how the creation of their eighth collaboration, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), is going. Featuring off-color terms of art, new (but self-imposed and good) pressure

Episode 340. Directing A Comedy
June 10, 2013

We share thoughts about comedy with director William Brown, who talks about his Writers' Theatre production of David Ives' The Liar which is earning rave reviews this month in Chicago. Featuring the joys of being at the epicenter of the action, the advan