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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · 5d

On the pod: Our sweet celebration of the Good Book premiered with no controversy 30 years ago at the Kennedy Center. Can you imagine?? We reminisce and marvel at how times have changed…for the worse. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

Celebrating The Bible - Reduced Shakespeare Company

The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), an irreverent celebration of “the greatest story ever accepted as fact” that was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play, celebrates its 30t...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · 12d

(After Chicago Shakes, "Paranormal Activity" travels to the Ahmanson in LA, ACT in SF, and the Shakespeare Theatre in DC, NONE OF WHOM I CAN TAG ON HERE. Come on, get with it, you guys.)

Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · 12d

"Paranormal Activity" @chicagoshakes.bsky.social is a GREAT new play with amazing scares and surprising depth. On the podcast, Shannon Cochran discusses how she came to be part of it, and the surprising niche she finds herself in. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

Shannon Cochran’s ‘Paranormal’ - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Stage actor Shannon Cochran (August: Osage County) brings her horror movie bona fides (The Ring; The Hand That Rocks The Cradle) to the phenomenal new stage play Paranormal Activity, an original new s...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · 20d

On the Podcast: Gerrad Alex Taylor discusses his world premiere adaptation of SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, opening 10/30 @artsatumbc.bsky.social, which combines Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to canonize the Black experience. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

Shakespeare In Harlem - Reduced Shakespeare Company

A hundred years on from the Harlem Renaissance, Gerrad Alex Taylor has adapted Langston Hughes’s Shakespeare in Harlem, which is having its world premiere this month at the University of Maryland Balt...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · 25d

On the Podcast: Danielle Davis & Bri Sudia discuss how the Q Brothers' ROME SWEET ROME @chicagoshakes.bsky.social, a musical comedy about the unintended consequences of political violence feels more necessary than ever. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org

Rome Sweet Rome - Reduced Shakespeare Company

The Q Brothers Collective (Othello: The Remix; Funk It Up About Nothing) have created Rome Sweet Rome, a wild and satirical new “add-rap-tation” of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar now running at Chicago S...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Sep 19

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...

Nina Ruscio Designs - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Our conversation with Nina Ruscio, the production designer of The Pitt, continues this week with further details of how unprecedented her design for HBO's Emmy-winning Best Drama really is. Nina compa...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Sep 11

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
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Designing The Pitt - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Nina Ruscio, the Emmy-nominated (for The Flight Attendant) production designer of The Pitt on HBO, discusses how her design helped create this enormous – and enormously popular – show. Nina reveals ho...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

Television’s First Lady - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Playwright James Sherman (Chagall in School) returns to discuss his new play The First Lady of Television, now having its world premiere at Chicago's Northlight Theatre. Jim shares his inspiration for...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Aug 19

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)!
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Misery Loves Company - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Joe Liss (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Strangers With Candy; Home Alone 2) and Dee Ryan (The Office, 10 Items Or Less, United States of Tara) are bringing their improvised horror parody Misery Loves Company ...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Aug 13

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)!

Shakespearean James Shapiro - Reduced Shakespeare Company

James Shapiro wears many hats – author, scholar, cultural historian, consultant to New York's Public Theatre – discusses his work with actors and students, as well as his invaluable books A Year in th...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jul 7

Adam, Austin, Daniel, Jess, and Reed.

Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jul 7

As are we!

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jul 7

Well, this is exciting. Coming in January from @ardenpublisher.bsky.social.
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company

The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe's four major Shakespearean works over the past four decad…

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

Dhaba On Devon - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Playwright and screenwriter Madhuri Shekar returns to talk about Dhaba on Devon Avenue, now having its much-delayed world premiere at Chicago's Writers Theatre in a co-production with Timeline Theatre...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 20

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.

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 20

Or, to use two terms-of-art we employ, “truth in comedy” and “in-jokes.” ❤️🪶💀

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 11

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

Preparing For Coriolanus - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Host Austin Tichenor returns to Chicago's Back Room Shakespeare Project to perform in their production of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus on June 16, 2025 at the Hideout, and he discusses with the sh...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 4

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)!

Glaser’s Dog Meditations - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Actor, author, and comedian Jon Glaser (Parks and Recreation, Delocated, Inside Amy Schumer, Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter) is turning his recent comedy album Jon Glaser's Soothing Meditations for the Soli...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · Jun 3

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EdFringe boss: Exorbitant accommodation is the festival's biggest threat

The rising cost of accommodation is the ‘single biggest threat’ facing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, according to the Fringe Society’s new chief executive Tony Lankester

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · May 30

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
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Midsommer Flight Dream - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Beth Wolf, the founding producing artistic director of Midsommer Flight, discusses her company's upcoming production of Love’s Labour’s Lost, which has been performing for free in parks throughout Chi...

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · May 27

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...

"When somebody loved me": The tragedy of Chimes at Midnight | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · May 22

Good god. Warn a guy next time!

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · May 21

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
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Filming ‘Complete Works’ - Reduced Shakespeare Company

Adam Long, Reed Martin, and Austin Tichenor – the cast of the film version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) – reminisce about the 2000 filming of the RSC's signature work, and d...

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Reduced Shakespeare Company @reduced.bsky.social · May 7

It really is. We were spectacularly on our game here.

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