Playwrights Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor discuss their eighth "Complete (abridged)" collaboration The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), which will have its Reduced Shakespeare Company world premiere at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in Novem

In addition to performing our shows around the world, we teach theatre workshops in many of the various communities where we appear. This week we talk about the various workshops we offer and discuss the importance of listening, how you can book a Reduced

Our old friend Scott Bushnell, designer of not only our logo but many of our show posters, is the Advertising Creative Manager for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC and shares with us the challenges of marketing 3500 individual performances a year and e

We open up the RSC mailbag this week (and the website comment pages) and try to answer and respond to the many questions and abundant feedback we've received over the last couple of months. Featuring references to questions asked and answered, the defini

The season three finale of Downton Abbey and last night's Academy Awards prompt this conversation with NPR film critic Bob Mondello, with whom we have long wanted to discuss S&M. We discuss whether "sentimental" is an appropriate critical term, and look

With all due respect to Annie Wilkes, reduced King scholar and film critic Katherine Naylor and I are big fans of Stephen King, so we sat down recently to discuss our favorite books, recurring themes, underrated novels, and abandoning pretension. Featuri

Benjamin & Catherine Woodring are graduate students at Harvard University, teaching Shakespeare under the auspices of Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, author of the New York Times best-selling Will in the World. For this special Valentine's Day podcast, B

We saw some great actors last week when we conducted auditions for the upcoming UK tour of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. Austin Tichenor, Matt Rippy, and Davey Naylor discuss the process by which we whittled over 1200 app

We spent a far too-reduced number of days in Bermuda this week, performing The Complete World of Sports (abridged) for three large appreciative crowds as part of the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts. We spent our too-reduced free time catching up o

We head back to the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts this week for the first time in over a decade and we're very excited. Join us in our Yakima, WA hotel lobby as we sample the snacks and wine given us by the Capitol Theatre and discuss what it's