More podcast chat with RSC college buddy Nina Ruscio, who shares stories of designing the Emmy-winning Best Drama THE PITT and working with (Emmy-winning!) star and exec producer Noah Wyle. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/09/nina...

On the Podcast: Nina Ruscio discusses her journey from designing @austintichenor.bsky.social's college musical to designing the biggest (in every way) show on television. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/09/desi...

On the Podcast: Playwright James Sherman discusses his new play about TV icon Gertrude Berg, now having its world premiere at Chicago's Northlight Theatre. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/09/tele...

Second City veterans Joe Liss and Dee Ryan talk about their improv horror parody MISERY LOVES COMPANY, which they're taking to the Rochester Fringe Festival 9/12 & 14. It's a cockadoodie good time! HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/08/mise...

The great James Shapiro - author, educator, & Shakespeare consultant for New York's Public Theater - discusses his work, what he learns from actors, and how we turn to Shakespeare to understand the stakes of what's happening around us. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)!

Well, this is exciting. Coming in January from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social. www.bloomsbury.com/us/shakespea...

The delightful @madplays.bsky.social returns to the RSC Podcast to discuss her funny new drama DHABA ON DEVON AVENUE, now having its world premiere at Chicago's Writers Theatre (in a co-pro with TimeLine Theatre). HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

In honor of today's opening of 28 YEARS LATER, here's that time 23 years ago that Cillian Murphy wandered through deserted London past our Criterion Theatre marquee in 28 *DAYS* LATER. Good times.

Actor/improviser Matt Walsh (VEEP, Upright Citizens Brigade) reveals improv’s magical qualities, including how improv skills can improve your acting…and vice versa. Matt’s touring New England this summer. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/06/impr...

On the pod: @austintichenor.bsky.social talks about doing CORIOLANUS next Monday with Chicago's Back Room Shakespeare Project and embodying their ethos of "Serious actors. No director. One rehearsal. In a bar." HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

On the Podcast: Actor Jon Glaser ("Parks & Recreation") talks about turning his comedy album "Jon Glaser's Soothing Meditations for the Solitary Dog" into a live show that partners with orgs & shelters that support dogs & their owners. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)!

On the Podcast: @bethwolf.bsky.social, founding AD of Chicago's Midsommer Flight, reveals how this summer's LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST is the perfect Shakespeare comedy for this moment. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/05/mids...

Looking for a great rainy day watch? 🌧️@austintichenor.bsky.social of @reduced.bsky.social Company revisits "Chimes at Midnight" as the film turns 60. 🔔 🎂 www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

On this week's RSC Podcast, we reminisce about filming "The Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare (abridged)" – gulp – 25 years ago, and the impact and legacy it continues to have. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/05/film...

Now it can be told! Ahead of next week's book launch & tour, Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social discusses his new novel ANIMA RISING and how its funny and unlikely elements came together. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/05/961-...

Thanks to Ruth Buzzi, we know how to respond to a creepy old man asking, "Want a Walnetto?" #RIP #RILaughter

Playwrights Reed Martin & @austintichenor.bsky.social explain how they write their scripts by focusing on things that are funny to - and sometimes ONLY to - them. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/funn...

This week's podcast is ready to go, but website glitches are preventing me from uploading! Thank you for having more patience than I do at this moment.

Shakespeare conducting all his characters, by the great @lartist.bsky.social. Happy 461st birthday, Will!!

409 years ago TODAY, William Shakespeare himself spoke to Tony Dean, creator and host of the Calling History Podcast, who explains how he finally bagged the immortal Bard to be his guest! HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/will...

What's so damn special about Shakespeare anyway? Improviser Liz Allen learns how, even though she's missed the Shakespeare boat, she can still catch it on this week's RSC Podcast. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/conn...

You’re welcome, @thwildkat15.bsky.social!

It's a beautiful spring #throwupthursday! It would have been around this time of year in 1991 or 1992 that a rare thing happened: Reed Martin worked the #RenaissancePleasureFaire in Devore, CA. Backstage just before *Hamlet.* The time: Night, obvs! @reduced.bsky.social

Author Julie Hammonds discusses her debut novel BLUE MOUNTAIN ROSE, a love letter to theatre artists & summer-stock Shakespeare, on this week's RSC Podcast. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social @julie-blue.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/blue...

On the Podcast: Tom Berger of @7agestheatricals.bsky.social, discusses directing @austintichenor.bsky.social's adaptation of @theauthorguy.bsky.social's NYT bestselling novel FOOL. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/04/fool...

Stick around after so at least one of us ( @austintichenor.bsky.social ) can say hi!

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Due to our last three performances of COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel) happening this weekend and us traveling home on Monday, this week's podcast will drop Tuesday on – what else? – April Fool's Day.

Redtwist Theatre co-A.D. Dusty Brown & @annesheridansmith.bsky.social, who plays TITUS ANDRONICUS, discuss how the production plays in their tiny space and how it'll be followed by GARY, Taylor Mac's clowny sequel. HEAR HERE! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/stor...

Rounded off a great #SAA2025 by having lots of fun @reduced.bsky.social “The Comedy of Hamlet” today, which incl. a Q&A between the cast and Dr Ronan Hatfull (pictured) 🎭

Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre is back with a new show, a welcoming new public space, and new artistic director Kasey Foster, who joins us on this week's RSC Podcast. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/welc...

People are losing the spirit of the Ides of March. It's not about just stabbing. It's about coming together to stab in groups

On 3/12/20, Broadway & other U.S. theaters started shutting down & our tours were cancelled. Last night – five years TO THE DAY – we finally got to launch THE COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel) on its 1st 3-week run at Merrimack Rep in Lowell, MA. Photo by the amazing Meg Moore/megpix.com.

Yorick lives! Geoffrey Barnes, a veteran of @cincyshakes.bsky.social and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, talks about joining the RSC for THE COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel), which starts previews tonight at Merrimack Rep. HEAR HERE! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/meet...

A fantastic conversation about the making of THE COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel) w/Reed Martin & @austintichenor.bsky.social, hosted by Merrimack Rep, Harvard’s Dr. Jeff Wilson, & Dr. Ronan Hatfull, author of forthcoming (2026) bio of the RSC. HEAR HERE! vimeo.com/1063285936

A match made in Shakespeare comedy heaven? @7agestheatricals.bsky.social will prodcue the world premiere of @austintichenor.bsky.social's adaptation of @theauthorguy.bsky.social's FOOL this spring! 7 Ages is a scrappy young company; hope you can help! www.gofundme.com/f/support-7a...

Dramatist @ignoranceisblixt.bsky.social discusses his audio drama EVE OF IDES, about the relationships in JULIUS CAESAR Shakespeare's audience knew so he didn't have to write. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/03/eve-...

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @nicolegalland.bsky.social, whose new novel BOY features young love, political intrigue, and cross-dressing both onstage and off in Shakespeare’s London. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/nico...

Amazing! Can’t wait to see you at Merrimack Rep in Lowell. mrt.org/show/comedyo...

As the accolades for epic indulgences like THE BRUTALIST pile up, a common sense cry for decency and restraint. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UKb...

Glad to see @chicagoshakes.bsky.social here in the 'Sky!! Hoping other theater companies will follow suit.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

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! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/revi...

On the podcast: Barb Wallace & Tom Wolfe discuss playing married writing partners in THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR & the hilarious challenges of acting again after being married writing partners themselves. HEAR HERE! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/02/key-...

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)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/gert...

Choose 20 plays that have stayed with you or influenced you. One play per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just a cover or poster. #TheatreSky #20 (h/t @austintichenor.bsky.social)

On the Podcast: Tyrone Phillips, Definition Theatre AD, discusses his co-pro of FAT HAM at the Goodman, and how playwright James Ijames updates HAMLET to a backyard BBQ. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/devo...

Now THIS is immortality. My @reduced.bsky.social partner and I being drawn by the great and good Mya Gosling, creator of the world’s greatest (and possibly only) Shakespearean stick-figure web comic GoodTickleBrain.com.

On the Podcast: Reed & Austin share 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! @americantheatre.bsky.social www.reducedshakespeare.com/2025/01/sidn...

Last night, RSC artistic directors @austintichenor.bsky.social & Reed Martin received the Berger Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Association in recognition of their commitment to promoting and popularizing the works of Shakespeare. Stunned and honored. And stunned.