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On the Podcast: Mike McShane (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; Whose Line Is It, Anyway?) discusses bringing serious acting & cheap comedy to play Ebenezer Scrooge in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s activist adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2024/12/mike-m…

Reduced Shakespeare Company I feel the spirit of Rambozo at work here. youtu.be/p8W5GCnqT_M?si… Incidently, their 4 hour epic history of the Seattle Mariners is also a must for any baseball fan. Just leave yourself, er, 4 hours.


On the Podcast: Richard Schoch discusses his new book HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE, filled with insights into Sondheim's shows, how they were created, their effect on audiences, and (yes) what lessons they can offer. Richard Schoch American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2024/12/sondhe…

Thanks Reduced Shakespeare Company Austin Tichenor for inviting me talk about my book HOW SONDHEIM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE 📚 Such fun! @AtriaBook Ebury Publishing 🇺🇸 simonandschuster.com/books/How-Sond… 🇬🇧 penguin.co.uk/books/467989/h… #sondheim #books #Christmasgifts #musicaltheatre #theatre #broadway #newbooks

The new trailer for 28 YEARS LATER has us reminiscing about the moment in 28 DAYS LATER when Cillian Murphy wandered in front of our Criterion Theatre marquee in search of survivors. Will we make the sequel???* (*No. We almost certainly will not.)


Didn't know this factoid from IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE when Chicago actors Joe Dempsey and Austin Tichenor talked about playing Mr. Potter American Blues Thtr and E. Scrooge Goodman Theatre on the RSC Podcast. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)!


On the Podcast: Christopher Donahue talks about playing both Gayev in Robert Falls' CHERRY ORCHARD & Scrooge Goodman Theatre, & how he draws inspiration from Russian films & Victorian novels. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2024/12/chekho…

“Christmas DAY?? I haven’t missed it!!” On the RSC Podcast: The complete and unabridged recording of “A Little Dickens: The Complete Christmas Carol (abridged)”. Enjoy!! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2024/12/specia…

On the Podcast: Austin Tichenor discusses alternating as Scrooge at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and the challenge of making the role his own while being haunted by the Ghosts of Scrooges Past & Present. HEAR HERE! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/thread…

On this week's RSC Podcast: Professor, author, & podcast host Anne Curzan returns to discuss Shakespeare's ongoing influence on the English language. It's (still) a brave new world! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/shakes…

On the Podcast: Reed & Austin share their shock & gratitude at receiving the Sidney Berger Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Assoc, honoring their commitment to popularizing the works of Shakespeare around the world. HEAR HERE! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/sidney…

Congratulations to the amazing, incredible and accomplished artistic leaders of The Reduced Shakespeare Company on being awarded the Sandra and Sidney Berger Award “in recognition of their outstanding talent and dedication to the works of William Shakespeare.” Reduced Shakespeare Company


On the Podcast: Director Tyrone Phillips discusses how the past informs the present in James Ijames's Pulitzer Prize-winning FAT HAM, opening tonight Goodman Theatre. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/devour…

On the Podcast: Playwright Lauren Gunderson discusses A ROOM IN THE CASTLE, about the women of HAMLET, now having its world premiere at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/gertru…

On the Podcast: Barb Wallace & Tom Wolfe discuss playing married writing partners in THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR & the hilarious challenges of being married writing partners themselves. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/key-we…

On the Podcast: Candice Handy discusses her production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill," at MRT thru 2/23, which gives the play the grit it requires to deliver the transcendence Billie Holiday deserves. HEAR HERE! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/revisi…


HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to author Nicole Galland, who discusses BOY, her new novel about young love, political intrigue, and cross-dressing both onstage & off in Shakespeare's London. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! American Theatre reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/nicole…

Hey, I did a pretty cool thing with Reduced Shakespeare Company & Austin Tichenor! Give it a listen. reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/fools-…

Enjoyed this episode of Reduced Shakespeare Company and was delighted that it unexpectedly touches upon how my book SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS Manchester University Press can inspire readers, as well as the pomposity of my surname 😂 reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/connec…