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Fair play to him. We're in some excellent company here. www.chortle.co.uk/perfectplayl....
'I've spent my career lovingly ripping off this idea...' : Perfect Playlist 2026 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
'I've spent my career lovingly ripping off this idea...' - Daniel Clarkson picks his Perfect Playlist
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Did you know writing a play and describing a play are two different skillsets? IT'S TRUE! Playwright Austin Tichenor talks about the challenge of describing his new play PURITANS ahead of its world premiere this September. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
Describing The Play - Reduced Shakespeare Company
A ghost story...but not. A time-travel tale...but not. Describing Austin Tichenor's new play Puritans accurately and intriguingly reveals that writing the play and describing the play are two complete...
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Second City vet & "The Office" alum Dee Ryan discusses bringing her interactive comic investigation BROADGUESS to @edfringe.bsky.social, part of the pantheon of solo Shakespeare shows. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/07/broa...
‘Broadguess’ In Edinburgh - Reduced Shakespeare Company
RSC alum Dee Ryan returns to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform the European premiere of Broadguess, her interactive comic Shakespeare solo show. Dee discusses the evolution of her show's s...
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We may not have Bill Irwin, but get an eye-full of our Cyclops from our reduction of "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" into "The Idioddity" in ALL THE GREAT BOOKS (abridged)! Catch us in 2027 around the country and at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, MA!
THIS WEEK: Playwrights Michael Doherty & Will Mobley discuss how DOGBERRY & VERGES ARE SCARED is coming to @edfringe.bsky.social with @austintichenor.bsky.social in the role of Verges! HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
‘Scared’ In Edinburgh - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Michael Doherty and Will Mobley return to talk about the continuing adventures of their very funny buddy comedy Dogberry & Verges Are Scared, which runs at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company through July ...
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For my 34th anniversary w/ @reduced.bsky.social, I chat w/ RSC founder Daniel Singer about his play "Louisa at Fruitlands" and reminisce about the RSC's early days. Listen to the RSC Podcast wherever you get them, or watch us on YouTube. @americantheatre.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhU...
RSC founder Daniel Singer discusses his new play "Louisa at Fruitlands" w/ RSC co-AD Austin Tichenor
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Carey Perloff discusses her glorious production of Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt" and how they worked to reshape it so it can be done – and more importantly, SEEN – by American theatergoers. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/06/dire...
Directing Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Carey Perloff (Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View) discusses how she worked with Tom Stoppard to bring his last and most personal play Leopoldstadt to Chicago's Writers Theatre and shape it into a...
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"Theatre's a conversation," "Narrative emerges," and other obersvations as Cory Hardin tells us about IMPROV: THE PLAY at IO Theatre in Chicago. On this week's RSC Podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts.
A clip from this week's podcast chat with Lucky Stiff and Helen Joo Lee, who each play "David" in the @goodmantheatre.bsky.social production of David Byrne's and Mala Gaonkar's THEATRE OF THE MIND, now running through July 12. Listen via the link in our bio or wherever you get your podcasts.
PERICLES @cincyshakes.bsky.social boldly goes where no Pericles has gone before, and AD Brian Isaac Phillips discusses his serious not spoofy treatment of Shakespeare's underrated Romance on this week's RSC Podcast. @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/04/scie...
Science Fiction Pericles - Reduced Shakespeare Company
At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Pericles boldly goes where no Pericles has gone before. Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips discusses how his space-age setting for Shakespeare's underrated Roman...
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I think right after TAX day in the US, we could all use a Shakespearean laugh. Here it is, from @reduced.bsky.social : The complete Guide for the Attention Impaired. It’s. hilarious, and you’ll love it. Even if you hate #Shakespeare, you’ll love this book. Enjoy!
WHO IS SHAKESPEARE'S BEST CHARACTER? Our elite panel of judges (plus some fan voting) determines the winner in this year's IDES OF MARCH MADNESS tournament bracket...and the answer may surprise you! youtu.be/hsL5eseJ-4s?...
RSC Podcast #1006 & #1007. "Ides of March Madness 2026".
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On the Podcast: Ben Crystal talks about his friendly guide SHAKESPEARE ON TOAST, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and which Ben is taking into the social media space (though not B'sky, apparently). HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/04/shak...
Shakespeare On Toast - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Actor, author, director, and educator Ben Crystal returns to discuss his book Shakespeare on Toast, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is now available in short entertaining clips on Instagram. Ben shares how the book came to be and the origins of its terrific title; how he and his father wrote the definitive work for the 21st century Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion, and how the books continues to be improved and an online resource; how bringing his scholarship to social media combines his academic and artistic skills; incredible insights into 17th-century language from 21st-century students; and the importance of providing a holistic way into Shakespeare's works. (Length 28:02)
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THIS WEEK: Podcast Whisperer Matthew Croke returns to discuss the current state of podcasting and how we're boldly going where so many have gone before – into video. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/04/rsc-...
RSC Podcast Whisperer - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Matthew Croke, former clown, RSC actor, and current podcast consigliere, returns to discuss where the RSC Podcast should go in its next 1000 episodes. Matt and Austin discuss the huge recent bump in G...
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"Back in the UK, back in the UK, back in the U-oo-oo K!!" www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) review – this brevity is the soul of wit
The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations
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LET THE MADNESS BEGIN! Our elite panel of judges debates the merits of Shakespeare’s top 64 characters in the first two rounds of this year’s Ides of March Madness tournament! HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/03/ides...
Ides of March Madness 2026 (Part 1) - Reduced Shakespeare Company
It. Has. Come. Down. To. This. RSC co-artistic director Austin Tichenor is joined by actors, directors, coaches, and Shakespeareans DeeDee Batteast, Elizabeth Dennehy, Gregory Linington, and director/...
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On the Podcast: Mike Tucker, head of Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation @cssf-uk.bsky.social, reveals his youthful beauty tips PLUS why Shakespeare specifically, and theatre generally, is not a luxury, but a training-ground for democracy. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)!
RSC Podcast #1004. "Shakespeare Schools Festival," with Mike Tucker
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Now on YouTube, Ronan Hatfull discusses his new book "Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company," the 1st full-length study of...US! RSC fans can get a 35% discount by applying code RSC at the publisher's website (link in replies). @americantheatre.org youtu.be/vR_VwkgY1rQ?...
RSC Podcast #1003. "Reduced Shakespeare Book," with Ronan Hatfull
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Braving the snow to see @reduced.bsky.social perform All the Great Books (Abridged) with favorite @austintichenor.bsky.social.
Out today! 'Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company' by Ronan Hatfull is the first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social, exploring the troupe’s four major Shakespearean works over the past four decades. https://bit.ly/4rs1wLU
On this week's Podcast: Meet the new RSC actors setting off to perform "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)" in 29 cities across the UK, starting TONIGHT! HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2026/02/new-...
New RSCUK Actors - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Say hello to the newest UK incarnation of the Reduced Shakespeare Company! Efé Agwele, Woogie Jung, Kiran Raywilliams, and Tom Pavey join director and RSC founder Adam Long to discuss our brand-new to...
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To celebrate our 1000th podcast, we've put the whole live conversation up on YouTube. Here, Annoyance Theatre founder Mick Napier confesses the double-edged sword of their breakout hit "Co-Ed Prison Sluts: The Musical." Watch the whole thing here! youtu.be/KzxAQBBm8HE?...
It's the 1000th episode of the world's oldest weekly theatre podcast. To celebrate, we chat with Mick Napier (Exit 57) and Jennifer Estlin, the founding artistic and executive director of Chicago's groundbreaking Annoyance Theatre. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
The Annoyance Theatre (Episode #1000!) - Reduced Shakespeare Company
It's our 1000th episode! And we celebrated in high-style with a live recording onstage at Chicago's Annoyance Theatrewith Annoyance's founder and artistic director Mick Napier (Paradigm Lost, Exit 57)...
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On 2/2, celebrate the RSC Podcast's 1000th episode with a LIVE RECORDING at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, where @austintichenor.bsky.social will interview Mick Napier & Jennifer Estlin, Annoyance's founder & exec director. JOIN US! @americantheatre.org Tix: theannoyance.thundertix.com/events/259355
On the Podcast this week: We end the year with the unabridged audio of our 1995 public radio broadcast, “The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas,” complete with one or two 30-year-old problematic jokes and racist accents. HEAR HERE! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/12/the-...
The RSC Christmas - Reduced Shakespeare Company
On its 30th anniversary, we present the complete audio of The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas, which walked so The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) could run, and was first recorded and broadc...
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On the Pod: Jon Hudson Odom and Helen Joo Lee reveal how they bring 21st-century joy and identities to Dickens's iconic couple in this year's @goodmantheatre.bsky.social production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. God bless us, every one. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
Meet The Cratchits - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Jon Hudson Odom and Helen Jon Lee (above) reveal how they bring surprising joy to their portrayals of the iconic Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit in this year's Goodman Theatre production of A Christmas Carol. J...
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