Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

With all due respect to Annie Wilkes, reduced King scholar and film critic Katherine Naylor and I are big fans of Stephen King, so we sat down recently to discuss our favorite books, recurring themes, underrated novels, and abandoning pretension. Featuring chilling memories of reading The Stand, di...

Benjamin & Catherine Woodring are graduate students at Harvard University, teaching Shakespeare under the auspices of Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, author of the New York Times best-selling Will in the World. For this special Valentine's Day podcast, Ben and Katy talk about their love for Shakesp...

RSC Company Manager Alli Bostedt adds another title to her growing list - Travel Agent - and describes what it's like getting us and our stuff all over the world. Featuring recommended travel websites, tricks we've learned over the years, the challenges of moving people and equipment in a post-9/11...

Gillian Albinski is the Prop Master for the hit TV show Homeland, and takes us behind the scenes of what it's like to set the scene and create all the stuff you see and the actors handle. Featuring what constitutes a prop, the advantages of television over film (and vice versa), eight-day miracles...

Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor discuss their new e-book How The Bible Changed Our Lives (Mostly For The Better), their irreverent comic memoir (originally published in paperback as The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Westminster/John Knox Press) and talk about how, while writing their whimsical look...

Novelist and former theatre dramaturg Nicole Galland has written I, Iago, a novel which tells the story of Shakespeare's famous villain and the events of the play Othello, but from Iago's point of view. Nicole talks about her tragic, comic, and crazily compelling riff on both the familiar story...

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...

The Complete History of America (abridged) premiered in 1993 and ran at the Criterion Theatre in London from 1996 to 2005, and has toured recently around the US and to Singapore and Hong Kong. For this 2012 tour of the show's "Special Election Edition", Dustin Sullivan returns with original cast mem...

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...

It's September and the kids have gone back to school...well, most kids have gone back to school. Young RSC fan Dale Stephens is the founder of the UnCollege movement and the author of Hacking Your Education, a manifesto about owning your own choices and forging your own path. Join us in the crowded...