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Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

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The world’s longest-running theatre podcast, which Broadway World calls “one of the Top 10 Podcasts for Theatre Fans!” HEAR HERE!

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What is Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast about?

The world’s longest-running theatre podcast, which Broadway World calls “one of the Top 10 Podcasts for Theatre Fans!” HEAR HERE!

What has Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Theater Is Hard" (16 October 2026, 23 minutes), "Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedy?" (30 September 2026), and "Kennedy Center Memories" (22 September 2026, 26 minutes).

How often does Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast publish?

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 22 minutes across 300 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast?

Booking probability for Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.

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Recent episodes

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    Theater Is Hard

    Oct 16, 202623 min

    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," wherein she writes entertainingly and usefully...

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    Shakespeare’s Greatest Comedy?

    Sep 30, 2026—

    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 Shakespeare's Greatest Comedy. Phillip explores...

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    Kennedy Center Memories

    Sep 22, 202626 min

    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 Tichenor share their favorite memories of...

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    Austin’s ‘Puritans’ Talkback

    Sep 17, 2026—

    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 playwright took questions from an audience that...

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    Playing To Learn

    Sep 8, 202620 min

    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 Classroom, which creates suggestions and games...

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    Dungeons & Shakespeare

    Sep 5, 202622 min

    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 think. Bond reveals the shows Renaissance Faire...

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    Comedies With Balls

    Aug 24, 202623 min

    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 the crisis in their relationship while playing...

  • Episode #1028

    Playwrights Who Direct

    Aug 18, 202620 minS20

    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 Fringe, and he discusses how putting the...

  • Episode #1027

    Out, Darn Spot!

    Aug 11, 202622 minS20

    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 above). Smith talks about the play's...

  • Episode #1026

    RSC 45th Anniversary

    Aug 11, 202622 minS20

    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 directors Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor discuss...

  • Episode #1025

    Describing The Play

    Jul 29, 202623 minS20

    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 describing the play are two completely different...

  • Episode #1024

    ‘Broadguess’ In Edinburgh

    Jul 21, 202618 minS20

    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 the evolution of her show's script, and its...

  • Episode #1023

    ‘Scared’ In Edinburgh

    Jul 14, 202622 minS20

    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 Shakespeare Company through July 25, 2026, and the...

  • Episode #1022

    Michigan Shakes Returns

    Jul 9, 202620 minS20

    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 University in Detroit. Blixt reveals how MSF, like so...

  • Episode #1017

    Always...Molly Hernández

    Jun 1, 202621 minS20

    <p>In the glorious American Blues Theater production of Always...Patsy Cline, Molly Hernández discusses how her character of Louise brings a lively theatricality to what could be "just" a well-produced jukebox musical...

  • Episode #1016

    Lear AND Fool??

    May 25, 202625 minS20

    <p>In his own personal Year of Lear, Daniel Mothershed (above) is playing both King Lear and the Fool in the Bowls With The Bard production of King Lear, immediately after directing the second production of Austin...

  • Episode #1015

    Scaramouche The Musical

    May 19, 202622 minS20

    <p>Chicago's City Lit Theater presents the world premiere of Kingsley Day's and James Grossman's Scaramouche: The Swashbuckling Musical! and City Lit's executive artistic director Brian Pastor and the show's director...

  • Episode #1014

    Improv: The Play

    May 14, 202622 minS20

    <p>Improv: The Play at Chicago’s IO Theatre pairs an actor and an improviser performing a two-person scripted scene where only the actor knows their lines, followed by a team of improvisers who perform an extended...

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    David Byrne’s ‘Mind’

    May 5, 202621 minS0

    <p>Helen Joo Lee and Lucky Stiff are two of the nine solo performers guiding audiences through the Goodman Theatre production of David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar's Theatre of the Mind, a uniquely interactive and immersive...

  • Episode #1012

    Science Fiction Pericles

    Apr 28, 202622 minS20

    <p>At Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Pericles boldly goes where no Pericles has gone before. Artistic Director Brian Isaac Phillips discusses how his space-age setting for Shakespeare's underrated Romance is weirdly...

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