Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Adrian Scarborough Masterclass
September 30, 2021

Two-time Olivier Award winner Adrian Scarborough returns to the podcast to give a masterclass in learning to love Shakespeare, studying him in drama school, and performing him professionally. Adrian s

#TheShowMustGoOnline In Person
September 23, 2021

LIVE FROM LONDON, ENGLAND! The Show Must Go Online – the international phenomenon that performed Shakespeare's uncut complete works once a week during the pandemic on Zoom – had an in-person reunion a

Flatwater Shakespeare’s ‘Unshaken’
September 14, 2021

Flatwater Shakespeare Company is hosting its first (and hopefully annual) "Unshaken Festival," five solo pieces that engage with Shakespeare comically, poignantly, and powerfully (including Dee Ryan's

The Steppenwolf Story
September 06, 2021

John Mayer – actor, director, and chair of the Theatre Department at Cal State Stanislaus – has written Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words, the (so far) definitive chronicle of

The False Exit
August 31, 2021

Barbara Wallace, who, along with her writing partner Thomas R. Wolfe created the TV series Welcome To New York (starring Christine Baranski and Rocky Carroll), talks about one of her biggest pet peeve

Ed And Larry
November 02, 2020

Peter James Smith and William Duffy played Washington power couple, comedy duo, and the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the White House, Ed and Larry, for seven seasons on Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing, plus the special reunion event A West Wing Special...

So Potent Art
October 26, 2020

Actor and author Emily Carding’s latest book So Potent Art: The Magic of Shakespeare (due July 2021), explores how Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets are suffused with magic, prophecy, astrology, alchemy, herbalism, witchcraft, hauntings,

Becoming Henry V
October 20, 2020

Daniel Jose Molina brilliantly played Hal in both parts of Henry IV and the title role of Henry V At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2017 & 2018. Now quarantining in the Chicago area with his wife Alejandra Escalante (who fiercely played Hotspur opp...

Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Unabridged)
October 12, 2020

Paul Edmondson is the Head of Research and Knowledge and Director of the Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and, together with Professor Sir Stanley Wells, has just published All the Sonnets of Shakespeare,

Madhuri Shekar, Storyteller
October 07, 2020

Award-winning playwright, audio dramatist, and now screenwriter Madhuri Shekar is an alum of Julliard’s playwriting program and has an MFA from USC in Dramatic Writing and a dual Master’s degree in Global Media and Communications from USC and the Londo...