Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Early Modern Citizens

In honor of this week's Blue Wave, we talk to author Casey Caldwell about his new book (from Arden Shakespeare), Urban Citizenship in Early Modern Drama: Politics, Commer

Joe’s Biff Riff

RSC actor Joseph Maudsley (William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)) talks about his solo show Biff to the Future, which celebrates the epic Back to the Futu

Theater Church Services

Theater artist and church elder Seth Willis conducts post-show talkback services at the Family of Christ Presbyterian Church in Greeley, CO, home of the Greeley Garage Sa

Theater Is Hard

Playwright Sara Farrington, whose terrific two-hander "Look Out" has just dropped from Broadway Play Publishing, also writes the most excellent Substack "Theater Is Hard,

Jill Talley’s Voice

Veteran TV & film actor (Man on the Inside, Mr. Show with Bob and David) and VoiceOver artist (SpongeBob SquarePants) Jill Talley returns to the legitimate stage this mon

Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedy?

Director Phillip Breen discusses his Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of The Merry Wives of Windsor and his contention that this less-produced play is in fact Shake

Kennedy Center Memories

The Reduced Shakespeare Company joins those fighting to save Washington DC's Kennedy Center from those who would destroy it. RSC artistic directors Reed Martin and Austin

Austin’s ‘Puritans’ Talkback

The Greeley (CO) Garage Sale Theatre hosted a talkback during the closing weekend of Austin Tichenor's play Puritans, and the cast, director Daniel Mothershed, and playwr

Playing To Learn

Longtime full-time teacher and longtime part-time improviser Kate Wiersema talks about her very fun and incredibly helpful book Playing to Learn: Using Improv in the K-8

Dungeons & Shakespeare

Shelby Bond's Dungeons & Shakespeare is a hilarious and interactive blend of two seemingly disparate elements of pop culture that share more qualities than you might thin

Comedies With Balls

John Ahlin and Christopher Patrick Mullen are the creators and stars of Chip & Gus: A Comedy with Balls, an amazing two hander in which the two title characters resolve t

Playwrights Who Direct

Playwright John Kolvenbach has directed his own play Stand Up If You're Here Tonight in productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Paris, and now the Edinburgh Festival

Out, Darn Spot!

Tyler Anthony Smith’s Out, Darn Spot! is a hilarious hour-long fever dream that imagines Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth as the host of a 60’s daytime chat show (pictured abov

RSC 45th Anniversary

August 8, 2026 is the 45th anniversary of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's first performance at the Northern California Renaissance Faire in 1981, and co-artistic direct

Describing The Play

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 descri

‘Broadguess’ In Edinburgh

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

‘Scared’ In Edinburgh

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 Sha

Michigan Shakes Returns

Michigan Shakespeare Festival artistic director Janice L. Blixt returns to discuss MSF’s new season, their first in several years, and their new home at Wayne State Unive

Louisa At Fruitlands

Reduced Shakespeare Company founder Daniel Rover Singer returns to talk about his new play Louisa At Fruitlands, about the intersection of Louisa May Alcott, the author o

Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival

Jason King Jones, artistic director of the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, shares details about PSF's current season, their plans to host the 2027 Shakespeare Theatre