Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Not all touring vans are equal. Climb inside 'Titus Vandronicus' (dubbed by Twitter follower @BenedictTheMad) and discover why it's probably the best one we've ever had. Recorded on April Fools Day 2013 on our first trip in it, Davey Naylor, Matt Rippy, Gary Fannin, and Ben Stratton rhapsodize over...

A veteran of stage, film, television, radio (and us!), London-based American actor John Schwab talks about living, working, surviving, and thriving in Britain. Featuring gray areas; White House stints; the complicated nature of Hollywood financing; discreet voice doubling; and tales of sharing the...

Live! from the Dress Circle of the York Theatre Royal comes this celebration of the opening weekend of our 16-week 54-city tour of The Complete Works of William Shakespeaere (abridged) [revised]. Featuring not very relaxing nights off, impertinent artistic analogies, slippery accents, knackered act...

We saw some great actors last week when we conducted auditions for the upcoming UK tour of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]. Austin Tichenor, Matt Rippy, and Davey Naylor discuss the process by which we whittled over 1200 applicants down to almost 40 auditioners to 18 c...

The cast of The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) in San Diego -- Michael Faulkner, Mick Orfe, and Dustin Sullivan -- talk about returning to San Diego Repertory Theatre and how the Christmas show differs from the RSC's other shows. Featuring natural disasters, the glory of the coveted Scenie, some...

Scott Parkinson is one of those great stage actors you've probably never heard of, and he's playing the title role in an amazing production of Hamlet at the wonderfully intimate Writers Theatre in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe. Austin Tichenor sits down with Scott (you know, one Hamlet to another)...

Dustin Sullivan, beloved veteran of previous RSC tours (Books in the US and Ireland in 2007; America in 2008), returns this fall to perform in both the Special Election Edition of The Complete History of America (abridged) and The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged). Dustin tells us about his...

Founding RSC member Adam Long returns (for the length of this podcast, anyway) to tell us what he's up to these days and share a burrito. Featuring backstage gossip from Mike the Knight and The Amazing World of Gumball, authentic details of the Adam Long Origin Story, the risks of clown math, and th...

Elizabeth Dennehy, who played Lt. Commander Shelby on Star Trek: The Next Generation, describes what it's like attending sci-fi/fantasy cons around the world. Featuring behind-the-scenes details from the pivotal episodes "The Best of Both Worlds (Parts 1 & 2)", convention-goer categorization, ques...

Tomorrow we leave for our eleven-week twenty-two city tour of The Complete World of Sports (abridged) in Great Britain, so today we check in with each other and see how the packing is going. Featuring tips on how to squeeze extra weight on the plane, the best way to prepare for the British hospitali...