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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
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Writers Guild Strike
David A. Goodman, the former president of the Writers Guild of America currently leading the negotiations and strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
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Remembering Frank Galati
Actor and professor Cindy Gold remembers her friend and colleague Frank Galati, the Academy Award-nominated and multiple Tony Award-winning writer and director…
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Karen Ann Daniels
Karen Ann Daniels, Director Of Programming and Artistic Director of Washington DC's Folger Theatre, discusses her journey with Shakespeare and her goal of…
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Shakespeare’s First Folio
2023 is the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, and Chris Laoutaris, the author of Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the…
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Admiral Shelby Returns
SPOILER ALERT: The penultimate episode of Star Trek: Picard's third and final season features the compelling return of Admiral Elizabeth Shelby, played by…
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Goodman’s 98th Season
Susan V. Booth, the new artistic director of the Goodman Theatre, talks about her recently-announced 2023-2024 season, the first she's programmed upon…
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Bringing Back Comedy
The original cast (pictured, left to right: Reed Martin, Dominic Conti, and Austin Tichenor) returns to The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) for…
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Shakespearean March Madness
Beware the Ides of March Madness! The question "What's the greatest Shakespeare play?" gets a definitive answer from director Nate Cohen, who's created a…
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Clyde’s In DC
Chicago-based actor Dee Dee Batteast (above) plays the title role in Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s at the Studio Theatre in Washington DC and she discusses the wild…
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Shakespeare’s ‘Star Wars’
Author Ian Doescher wrote William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, a New Hope and others in the Quirk Books Pop Shakespeare series (The Taming of the Clueless…
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More Michael Chiklis
Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Michael Chiklis returns to discuss some of the roles he's played and some of the roles he'd like to play. Michael shares…
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‘Shrew’ In Cincinnati
Director Jemma Levy discusses The Taming of the Shrew, now in rehearsal at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and opening this week. Jemma shares her thoughts…
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‘Dear Actor’ Letters
Janice L. Blixt, the producing artistic director of the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, discusses the very tiny percentage of clumsy and unfortunate inquiry…
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Meet Tré Tyler
Tré Tyler (above left) joins the Reduced Shakespeare Company for this spring's tour of The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), and endures the RSC…
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Teenage Shakespeare Take
Annabelle Higgins is the creator and host of "A Teenager's Take on Shakespeare" podcast (available on Spotify), a series of fascinating conversations with…
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Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’
Playwright Sara Gmitter (In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story) returns to Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre for the world premiere of her adaptation…
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Reviewing London’s ‘Streetcar’
Our 'London Entertainment Correspondent' (!) Elizabeth Dennehy reviews the transformative Almeida Theatre production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named…
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Chicago Magic Lounge
Part speakeasy bar, part magic theater, the Chicago Magic Lounge presents live magic shows seven nights a week in its two performance spaces, its bar, and at…
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Subversive Improv Guide
David Razowsky has written A Subversive’s Guide to Improvisation: Moving Beyond “Yes, And”, a fascinating, helpful, and inspiring new book that features…
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Shakespeare And Fantasy
Bryan Cogman, a four-time Emmy-winning writer and co-executive producer of Game of Thrones and a consulting producer on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of…
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Sherlock & Scrooge
Allen Gilmore (above, right) plays Ebenezer Scrooge in A Sherlock Carol, a holiday mashup of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now running in both New…
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Happy Merry Chrismakwanukahhanzukah!
A Bonus episode! For all who celebrate – the only thing you’ll ever have to say. From The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged). The post Happy Merry…
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Cabaret ZaZou’s “Luminaire”
Cabaret ZaZou's “Luminaire,” an intimate, interactive cabaret/cirque production performed inside a European spiegeltent on the 14th floor of the Cambria Hotel…
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Growing Up Nutcracker
A family affair this week as host Austin Tichenor is joined by his brother John Tichenor and sister Amy Tichenor Moorhead to discuss their early years…
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Lamb’s 20th Anniversary
Christopher Moore returns to talk about his wise comic novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, which celebrates its 20th anniversary…
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Saluting The Understudies
“Stand-ins of the world, stand up!” (Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound) 2022 will be remembered as the Year of the Understudy – not only did the Patron…
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Goodman’s Christmas Carol
Jessica Thebus directs the Goodman Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol, and this year she's brought our own Austin Tichenor along to play Scrooge…
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Happy 16th Anniversary!
Mya Gosling, aka GoodTickleBrain, joins us to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast, new episodes of which have dropped…
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Weird Al’s Guitarist
Jack Lancaster (above, left, with Daniel Radcliffe) plays Jim "Kimo" West, or at least a highly fictionalized version of him, in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story…
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Measure For Measure
Director Henry Godinez talks about his powerful Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of Measure For Measure, how he loves Shakespeare’s famously problem…
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Doug’s Time Traveling
RSC Actor Doug Harvey (Hamlet in Hamlet's Big Adventure! (a prequel)) performs his one-man show A Time Traveler's Guide to the Present at the United Solo…
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Shana’s “All’s Well”
Shana Cooper discusses her direction of one of Shakespeare's infamous "problem plays," All's Well That Ends Well, which ran (quite well!) at Chicago…
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Lighting The Comedy
Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, and Joseph Jefferson award-winning designer Christopher Akerlind has designed the lights for the current Goodman Theatre production of…
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Actor/Singer David Benoit
Broadway veteran David Benoit works all over the country, including the current Chicago Lyric Opera production of Fiddler on the Roof and the recent world…
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‘Owning Shakespeare’ Podcast
The first season of Rob Myles' extraordinary Owning Shakespeare podcast is now available on all the usual platforms, and it's a fantastic collection of six…
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Tyla Abercrumbie’s ‘Relentless’
Tyla Abercrumbie is an actor, director, and playwright whose play Relentless was produced by Chicago's Timeline Theatre Company, called "The best new work here…
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Adrian’s Alan Adaptation
Two-time Olivier Award winning actor Adrian Scarborough has written The Clothes They Stood Up In, an adaptation of the novella of the same name by Alan Bennett…
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Ron OJ Parson
Ron OJ Parson is a multiple award-winning director and Resident Artist at the 2022 Tony-winning regional theater Court Theatre in Chicago, where his production…
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Chagall In School
James Sherman is a founding member of the Tony-winning Victory Gardens Theater’s Playwrights Ensemble and his new play, Chagall in School, opens this weekend…
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Playing Henry V
Chicago actor Sam Hubbard just finished playing the title role in the the Michigan Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V, directed by artistic director…
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Mr. Javier Muñoz
Javier Muñoz (Hamilton, In The Heights) stars in The Devil Wears Prada, the new musical based on the film and novel, with songs by Elton John and Shaina Taub…
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Where We Belong
Madeline Sayet's one-woman show Where We Belong tells the story of her journey from discovering Shakespeare as a child to studying him in England and directing…
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Celebrating Anne Hathaway
(No, not that one.) This weekend is the 399th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway, and to commemorate the occasion we talk to…
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Counting ‘Zero Zebras’
Children’s book author (Great Estimations, The Beastly Feast) Bruce Goldstone discusses his new book Zero Zebras: A Counting Book About What’s Not There, an…
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Celebrating ‘Lookingglass Alice’
David Catlin is a founding Ensemble Member, actor, writer, director, and former Artistic Director of the Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago, and…
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Starling Shakespeare Company
Heron Kennedy (left, below) and Jessie Lillis, the founding artistic directors of Starling Shakespeare Company, discuss the company's origins, plans for the…
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Jack And Louise
Two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright Ken Ludwig has written Dear Jack, Dear Louise, a funny and charming romantic comedy that won the Helen Hayes award in…
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Summertime Shakespeare Rom-Com
“To go for it, or not to go for it?” That is the appealing question that drives For the Love of the Bard, the debut novel from author Jessica Martin, which is…
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The Understudy Bookstore
Chicago will soon get its own Drama Book Shop in the form of The Understudy Bookstore, and founding owners Adam Crawford and Danny Fender talk about their…
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Harlem’s Classical Theatre
Ty Jones, the producing artistic director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, talks about how CTH has survived the pandemic; continues to provide theatrical…
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Jackie & Me
Louis Bayard's new novel Jackie & Me tells the story of the courtship of Congressman John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier from the point of view of Kennedy’s…
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Michael Chiklis’s Red
Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Michael Chiklis (The Shield) plays legendary Hall of Fame coach, president, and general manager of the Boston Celtics Red…
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Shakespeare In Detroit
Sam White (left) is the founding artistic and executive director of Shakespeare In Detroit, currently presenting the African-American Shakespeare Company…
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Staging “Athena”‘s Fencing
David Blixt is the co-fight choreographer of the Writers Theatre production of Gracie Gardner's Athena, directed by Jessica Fisch and featuring two stand-out…
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Christopher Moore’s ‘Razzmatazz’
Christopher Moore’s latest comic novel Razzmatazz is a sequel to his 2018 novel Noir, a wonderfully funny and satisfying novel of reinvention that depicts San…
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Shakespeare Lightning Round
Austin Tichenor was a guest on the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Instagram Live series Shakespeare Lightning Round, a hugely fun format where guests from all…
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RSC D&D One-Shot
Chad Yarish served as the Dungeon Master for the RSC's very first Dungeons & Dragons campaign – certainly the very first one we recorded for a podcast. While…
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Thing Of Darkness
What if Shakespeare didn't die on April 23, 1616, and instead sailed to the New World? Novelist Allan Batchelder (the Immortal Treachery series) dives into…
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Hail, Richard II
The African-American Shakespeare Company production of Richard II, in a new Play On! translation by Naomi Iizuka, runs this weekend and next April 15-24, 2022…
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Episode 800! Hail, ‘King James’!
For our landmark 800th episode, we're joined by Rajiv Joseph, the Obie-winning playwright and screenwriter whose Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo was a finalist…