Scott Parkinson is one of those great stage actors you've probably never heard of, and he's playing the title role in an amazing production of Hamlet at the wonderfully intimate Writers Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe. Austin Tichenor sits down w

You can't really call us "publicity whores" because we don't charge for it, we give it away! (We will answer, however, to "publicity sluts".) But there's a handful of things we'd prefer to avoid and/or not do, so this week Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

The death of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 hit very close to home as our own Austin Tichenor and Chris were old friends from high school and college roommates. For this reduced audio wake, Austin is joined by fellow roommate S

The Complete History of America (abridged) premiered in 1993 and ran at the Criterion Theatre in London from 1996 to 2005, and has toured recently around the US and to Singapore and Hong Kong. For this 2012 tour of the show's "Special Election Edition", D

Who cares whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney would make a better president? The important question is, which one would make a better member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company? Reed Martin, Dustin Sullivan, and Austin Tichenor discuss the candidates (and

Dustin Sullivan, beloved veteran of previous RSC tours (Books in the US and Ireland in 2007; America in 2008), returns this fall to perform in both the Special Election Edition of The Complete History of America (abridged) and The Ultimate Christma

It's September and the kids have gone back to school...well, most kids have gone back to school. Young RSC fan Dale Stephens is the founder of the UnCollege movement and the author of Hacking Your Education, a manifesto about owning your own choices and

It's an American presidential year, so we're rolling out the Special Election Edition of The Complete History of America (abridged) across the US. Hear excerpts from the show plus a LIVE performance from National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, and di

During Kids Week 2012 in London, we did a post-show Q&A after our Thursday matinee at the Arts Theatre. In this lively and revealing twenty minutes, hear impeccable English accents (theirs), terrible Scottish ones (ours), strenuous work habits (pubs), and

To celebrate our 300th week of regular podcasting, we take you back to where our audio library all began: Laughing Stock Productions. Founder and producer Mike O'Brien tells us the history of his epic comedy label (audio home of acts ranging from Peter Co