Second City alum Brian Stack has been a writer for Conan O'Brien since 1997, and he talks about his rise from improvising in Chicago to Emmy Award-winning comedy writing in New York and Los Angeles. Featuring advice on creating submission packets, backsta

It's He Said/He Said as our good friends Matt Croke and Bill Matson testify about what happened to Bill's pristine first-edition copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Featuring photographic evidence, conflicting testimony, medically-suspicio

Michael Witmore is the new (and appropriately named) director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and shares his enthusiastic insight into how Shakespeare opens doors into other worlds, why original annotated texts are awesome, why the hu

Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor reunite with Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield, and Sa Winfield in Part Two of the highlights from our 30th Anniversary Webcast. (Part One can be heard here.) Featuring tales of strange opening acts, personal meltdowns, fantast

August 8, 2011 was the 30th anniversary of the very first performance by the Reduced Shakespeare Company, so we joined founding members Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield, and Sa Winfield on the actual site (it's now a golf course) for our very first live webca

RSC member Jerry Kernion talks about his recent performance as both Dromios (Dromiii?) in A Noise Within's hit production of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, and also takes us behind the scenes of Cirque du Soleil's ill-fated foray onto the proscenium stag

Broadcaster, journalist, novelist, inveterate tweeter, and now (gasp) playwright, National Public Radio's Scott Simon discusses his recent novels, upcoming projects, and the degree to which his Chicago background informs his work. Featuring Scott's tribut

We review the reviews we've received for The Complete World of Sports (abridged) and delight in reading the raves and criticizing the critics. Featuring "childlike glee," an obscure Andy Griffith/Don Knotts reference, "delicious anarchy," a special appe

Max Woodward, the Vice-President for Theatre Programming at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, talks about how he programs and fills this fantastic venue. Featuring the dedication to un-reduced productions, the luxury of resources, the privilege of both

On the night of our final performance of Completely Hollywood (abridged) at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, we reflect on how it's changed and matured, its uniquely high level of absurdity, its surprising number of character laughs, and whether we'll