Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 211A. We Sing ‘Gay!’
December 20, 2010

In honor of the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell": Rare archival footage of Reed Martin, Dee Ryan, and Austin Tichenor singing 'Gay!' from the RSC's original 1998 production of The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged) at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. (S

Episode 211. Most Dangerous Christmas
December 20, 2010

Just in time for the holidays comes this weird new classic. From Twisted Christmas Live in Santa Rosa, California, Reed Martin reads David Templeton's dark holiday tale The Most Dangerous Christmas. Featuring an excerpt from The Reduced Shakespeare Compan

Episode 210. Upright Citizens Brigade
December 13, 2010

Matt Walsh is one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and he explains how his little comedy group has become one of the largest and most respected improv schools in the US. Featuring deadpan comedy tips, how anarchic comedy translates

Episode 209A. Our Asian Adventure
December 12, 2010

Our 2010 Hong Kong & Singapore trip was captured in a slide show put together by Liz Fitzpatrick, Alli Bostedt, and Jeff Marlow -- and set to a mocking and celebratory song by RSC troubador Mick Orfe. Special thanks to our friends at ABA Productions (all

Episode 209. Broadway Play Publishing
December 06, 2010

Broadway Play Publishing publishes and licenses the scripts of such playwrights as Tony Kushner, Eric Overmyer, Neil LaBute, Constance Congdon, and the entire Complete (abridged) oeuvre, and Kip Gould, its founder and publisher, raves about the exciting

Episode 208. Places We’ve Played
November 29, 2010

Of all the great venues we've performed in around the world, this list definitely includes some of them. Featuring reminiscences about some of the great venues we've played, memories of the not-so-great venues we've played, one way of maintaining sanity w

Episode 207. Playing Through Pain
November 21, 2010

Professional actors, like professional athletes, don't whine about the aches and pains they endure on the field of battle. Well, we're not professional actors. Featuring a litany of injuries, a raft of remedies, a special appearance by a brand-new fan, a

Episode 206. Michael Faulkner’s Measure
November 15, 2010

Michael Faulkner returns to the RSC fold and regales us with tales of Measure For Measure at A Noise Within in Los Angeles, where he's playing Elbow. Featuring the differences between acting and stage managing, between real Shakespeare and reduced Shakesp

Episode 205. Castoffs & Misfits
November 07, 2010

A good ensemble can make a theatre production great and a World Series champion. Reed Martin celebrates the victory of his beloved San Francisco Giants as we compare long-shots, underdogs, dynasties, and never-wases. Featuring logical superstitions, bandw

Episode 204. More Nerdy Geekery
November 01, 2010

AJ Mass is a distinguished sportswriter for the website of a well-known four-letter American Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, the name of which we're not allowed to say. But he has also given literally minutes of thought and attention to such