It's our 700th episode!! And because it happily coincides with the publication of Christopher Moore's Shakespeare For Squirrels, the New York Times best-selling author turns the tables and interviews RSC co-artistic director Austin Tichenor in an epic ...

Christopher Moore talks about his new comic novel, Shakespeare For Squirrels, which sees his great creation Pocket of Dog Snogging (the Fool from Shakespeare’s King Lear) stranded in the Athenian woods amongst the characters from Shakespeare’s Midsumme...

What movie musical pairs best with what Marvel superhero movie? Nate Burger and Laura Rook, two married Chicago actors, are surviving the quarantine in the most entertaining and delightful of ways: Pairing Nate's favorite Marvel superhero movies with L...

Actor Elizabeth Dennehy (left) remembers her father Brian Dennehy, "a tireless tragedian of the old school" (Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune), who passed away at the age of 81 on April 15, 2020 from cardiac arrest due to sepsis.

“The dream is the most important part of our lives.” Brian Dennehy, 1938-2020 - We remember Brian Dennehy, the acclaimed actor who passed away last night, April 15, 2020, with this repost of our podcast interview with him from 2012,

Second City alumnus Brian Stack (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Late Night and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien) has a knowledge of popular music that's both broad and deep, and this week he shares with us the kind of music that gets him throug...

Stephen Sondheim turned 90 two weeks ago and to commemorate the event (and because he's quarantined at home like all the rest of us), NYU MFA student (and Austin's nephew) Andrew Moorhead compiled his list of the great lyricist/composer's top ninety so...

Dr. Katy Reedy, a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lake Forest College who's working on a book-length study of contagion and performance in the early modern era, discusses her research and what we can learn (and take small hope) from the plag...

Playwright, actor, and musician Deb Hiett discusses one of her most interesting survival jobs, many years ago in the heyday of the 900 number, and how it allowed her to flex her storytelling muscles and skills as a character actress.

Actor, director, and playwright J. Nicole Brooks is the author and director of Her Honor Jane Byrne, which looks at the moment in Chicago history when its first woman mayor moved into the Cabrini-Green housing projects.