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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
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Independent Shakespeare Company
Independent Shakespeare Company celebrates its 20th anniversary of producing free Shakespeare in the parks of Los Angeles, and artistic director Melissa…
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Token Theatre’s RomCom
Who doesn’t love a romcom? David Rhee and Wai Yim discuss Zac Efron, their sweet and very funny romantic comedy now having its world premiere as the inaugural…
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The Bard’s Book
Ann Bausum, the author of The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare From Oblivion, discusses how she first discovered…
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Dreaming Multiple ‘Dream’s
Artist, author, and illustrator Gary Andrews (Finding Joy, Drawing on Shakespeare, Daisy the Littlest Zombie) is directing A Midsummer Night's Dream for the…
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Ruining Father’s Day
Mark Nutter and Tom Wolfe bring their special blend of comedy and music to an evening entitled “Another Father’s Day Ruined,” part of the Solo Sunday series…
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Hamid Dehghani’s ‘English’
Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, a powerful, warm-hearted, and surprisingly funny play about four adult students in Iran studying for the…
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Daniel Breaker’s ‘Judgment’
Daniel Breaker (Billions, Girls5eva) is appearing in Judgment Day in its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in a production starring Jason…
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Liz Allen’s ‘Mother’
Improviser, improv coach, and "ensemble whisperer" Liz Allen discusses her one-person show Tonight, I Am My Mother, her darkly comic exploration of her…
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Filming ‘Lookingglass Alice’
Scott Silberstein, the co-founder and executive producer of HMS Media, talks about filming Lookingglass Alice, the signature work of Chicago’s Tony-winning…
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Screwed-Up Teenagers
Scott Bailey’s new book Romeo, Juliet, and Other Screwed-Up Teenagers: An Irreverent Guide to Introducing the World’s Most Staggeringly Inappropriate Play to a…
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Ondřej Pšenička’s Magic
He's fooled Penn & Teller three times, and now Ondřej Pšenička is fooling audiences every week at the Chicago Magic Lounge in his new show 52 Lovers. Ondřej…
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Rosencrantz And Guildenstern
For his final production as thirty-year artistic director of Chicago's Tony-winning Court Theatre, Charles Newell transforms Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and…
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Michelle’s ‘Green World’
Michelle Ephraim – a Professor of English and (with Caroline Bicks), the cohost of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast and the co-author of Shakespeare, Not…
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Visiting ‘Shakespeare’s House’
Richard Schoch discusses Shakespeare’s House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy, his wonderful new history of not only the building in Stratford-upon-Avon that…
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All Our Yesterdays
Joel H. Morris discusses his debut novel All Our Yesterdays – no, not the penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Original Series – which tells the compellingly…
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Ides Of March Madness
What's Shakespeare's best speech? That question gets answered on this epic episode by director Nate Cohen and actor/educators Elizabeth Dennehy and Gregory…
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Writing ‘Tragedy Averted’
Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri discusses her Shakespearean summer camp comedy Tragedy Averted, now having its midwest premiere at the IO…
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Mark Larson’s ‘Working’
Mark Larson, the author of Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theatre, returns to the podcast to talk about his newest book, Working in the 21st Century: An…
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Stick-Figure Hamlet
For our landmark 900th episode, Mya Gosling and her pocket dramaturg Kate Pitt discuss the epically comic A Stick-Figure Hamlet, Mya's hysterical and…
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Harpo And Chico
Reed Martin has written Harpo and Chico and Bill, a new comedy about Harpo Marx, his son Bill, and Harpo’s brother Chico as they try to put one final live…
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Troilus And Cressida
Director Jemma Levy discusses her incredibly successful production of Shakespeare's problem play Troilus and Cressida for the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern in the…
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Dominic’s Debut Novel
The RSC's own Dominic Conti has published his debut novel Your Book Club, a weird and compelling character-driven mystery that explores madness and "reexamines…
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CST’s Edward Hall
Edward Hall, the new artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, discusses his return to Chicago and his new production of Richard III, starring Tony…
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Banning “The Bible”
Last week was the tenth anniversary of "The Kerfuffles," that time when our performance of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) was banned by…
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Measuring The Laughs
On the eve of our upcoming tour of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), co-authors and RSC co-artistic directors Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor talk…
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School Of Night
Oliver Senton, one of the co-founders of The School of Night, discusses the origins of the great British Shakespearean improv company (loosely inspired by the…
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Spanky’s Serial Killer
Improviser, storyteller, and teacher Jonathan Pitts's one-man show My Dad, His Chimp, and a Serial Killer tells the real-life story of his father David, a…
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Favorite Shakespeare Lines
For this first podcast of 2024, father and son authors David Crystal and Ben Crystal share their (many!) favorite quotations they've collected in their handy…
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Potter V. Scrooge
Joe Dempsey and Austin Tichenor play Mr. Potter and Ebenezer Scrooge in, respectively, It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago! at the American Blues Theater…
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Muppet Christmas Carol
Author Ethan Warren (The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha) has written the definitive argument that The Muppet Christmas Carol is the best…
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Marley’s Christmas Carol
On its 20th anniversary, actor and playwright Tom Mula discusses the stage adaptation of his book Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, which is available to license…
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Hot Santa Extravaganza
Artist and author Gary Andrews (Finding Joy; Daisy the Littlest Zombie) has created the new holiday classic Hot Santa and the Twelve Days of Christmas, his…
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Holiday Murder Mystery
In a delightfully macabre bit of counter-programming, Northlight Theatre is producing the classic Dial M For Murder, which has already been extended into 2024…
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Scrooge To Scrooge
Larry Yando (left, above) discusses playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Goodman Theatre production of A Christmas Carol with his "Alternate Scrooge,"…
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Everyday Shakespeare Lines
Ben Crystal and David Crystal – authors of multiple works, including Shakespeare's Words and The Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary – discuss their new…
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Lionesses In ‘Winter’
Rebecca Spence (left) and Netta Walker play Eleanor of Aquitaine and Alice Capet, the estranged wife and mistress, respectively, of Henry II, in the Court…
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Meet Frederick Fronkensteen
Actor Sean Fortunato (TV's Fargo) discusses playing the iconic role of Frederick Frankenstein in the Mercury Theater Chicago production of Young Frankenstein…
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Let’s Build Forts!
Julie Ritchey, the founding artistic director of Chicago's Filament Theatre, and scenic and installation designer Eleanor Kahn are two members of the team that…
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The Nacirema Society
Chicago director Lili-Anne Brown brings extraordinary levels of funny and heart to the Goodman Theatre production of Pearl Cleage's wonderful comedy of class…
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Daisy the Littlest Zombie
"Some zombies are big Some zombies are small But Daisy's the littlest zombie of all..." So begins Daisy the Littlest Zombie, the sing-songy coming-of-age tale…
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Adapting Kurt Vonnegut
Award-winning playwright and Lifeline Theatre ensemble member John Hildreth wrote an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's satirical sci-fi novel Cat's Cradle, now…
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Playwright Sarah Ruhl
Award-winning playwright, author, and professor Sarah Ruhl discusses her playwriting philosophy and influences ranging from Ovid to Alice in Wonderland and…
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Eurydice’s Sarah Price
Sarah Price stars in the Writers Theatre production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice (directed by Braden Abraham) and discusses the challenges of playing a character…
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Storyteller Neal Foard
Neal Foard's short videos on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok are viral sensations: stories filled with humor, wisdom, and a celebration of our commonalities…
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Improvising ‘Star Trek’
Chicago’s Otherworld Theater Company is America’s only non-profit theatre dedicated exclusively to exploring the genres of science-fiction and fantasy (and…
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Lenny Bruce Lives
Actor and writer Ronnie Marmo (above) talks about his one-man show I’m Not a Comedian…I’m Lenny Bruce (directed by Joe Mantegna), which he's toured all over…
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TV’s Neil Flynn (Pt. 2)
Neil Flynn (The Fugitive, Mean Girls, Scrubs, The Middle) returns to talk about how he manages to work both sides of the acting street: comedic and dramatic…
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TV’s Neil Flynn (Pt. 1)
Film (Mean Girls, Magnolia) and television (Scrubs, The Middle) veteran Neil Flynn talks about the joys of meeting your heroes, including working with Dick Van…
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Steppenwolf’s Jeff Perry
Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble member and co-founder Jeff Perry returns to Chicago to star in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, and he discusses what drew…
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Phony Winning Musical
Laura Hall (from TV's "Whose Line Is It, Anyway?") discusses Phony Award Winning, the improvised musical comedy inspired by classic musicals that she…
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Beethoven’s Killer B’s
Jeff Yang, a classically-trained crossover musician and artistic director of In the Realm of Senses, discusses his production of Beethoven and the Killer B’s…
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On Being Unreasonable
Dr. Kirsty Sedgman's new book, On Being Unreasonable: Breaking the Rules and Making Things Better, examines our age of division and how we can be unreasonable…
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Adrian Scarborough’s Churchill
Olivier Award-winning actor Adrian Scarborough plays Winston Churchill in the Donmar Warehouse production of Jack Thorne’s new play, When Winston Went to War…
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Something More Wonderful
Jeffrey Sweet, the author of Something Wonderful Right Away, returns to the podcast to discuss the brand-new second edition of this granddaddy of all improv…
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More Bard’s Rest
Novelist Jessica Martin returns to her fictional town of Bard’s Rest, NH, for her second Shakespearean romcom, The Dane of my Existence. Her first book, For…
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Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Don’t know your Bacons from your Marlowes, your deVeres from your Rutlands? Fear not. We addressed the so-called "Authorship Question" in our 2006 book…
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Asian American Renegades
Matthew C. Yee (above) wrote the book and score for Lucy and Charlie's Honeymoon, and plays one half of the titular couple in the Lookingglass Theatre world…
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Dee Ryan’s ‘Broadguess’
Actor, improviser, and playwright Dee Ryan has written Broadguess, her one-person comedy in which a hard-boiled Elsinore detective gets too close to some…
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Meet Braden Abraham
Braden Abraham, the new artistic director of Chicago’s Writers Theatre, just announced the theater's 31st season, the first one he's programmed since joining…
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Will’s Gender Play
The About Face Theatre world premiere production of Gender Play, or what you Will is a tour-de-force for its co-creator and star Will Wilhelm, who transforms…