Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

We head back to the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts this week for the first time in over a decade and we're very excited. Join us in our Yakima, WA hotel lobby as we sample the snacks and wine given us by the Capitol Theatre and discuss what it's like performing the Sports show again, the su...

At the end of our second week of playing The Complete World of Sports (abridged) in the UK, we talk about the many subtle and not-so-subtle changes we're making to Anglicize the show for a British audience. Featuring evidence that reviews can help, a close encounter (and missed opportunity) with the...

Every actor gets 'em; this week we get ours. After a recent performance of The Complete World of Sports (abridged), we met in a crowded noisy bar in Santa Rosa, California with Dodds Delzell, Chad Yarish, and April George, all of whom worked on the original production of the script. Featuring Sports...

Sportswriter, columnist, and nerd's nerd AJ Mass returns to talk about his book How Fantasy Sports Explains The World: What Pujols and Peyton Can Teach Us About Wookiees and Wall Street. Featuring wisdom from the likes of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Jane Espenson, the importance of shared metaphors, ill...

It's been too long! This summer we return to England for the European premiere of The Complete World of Sports (abridged) - just in time to coincide with some minor international sporting event that will apparently be there at the same time. Featuring the number of weeks we'll be there (11), the...

Reed and Austin talk about what a busy, hectic, and productive two years it's been, and how weirdly similar 2012 will be. Featuring insight into the cyclical nature of theatre, tips on regeneration, a special appearance from Jon Weber, host of NPR's Piano Jazz Rising Stars, and frustratingly vague r...

Comedians walk the line of appropriateness all the time, but sometimes the line changes. We discuss the (surprisingly few) changes we made to make The Complete World of Sports (abridged) appropriate for our run at the family-friendly New Victory Theatre. Featuring serious conversations about immatur...

We performed excerpts from "The Complete World of Sports (abridged)" on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" this summer, and in anticipation of our run at the New Victory Theatre in New York, herewith are excerpts of the excerpts! Featuring impressive trivia, the differences between baseball and cricket, the...

We made our second straight appearance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, reading from Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired (abridged), All The Great Books (abridged), Completely Hollywood (abridged), and The Complete World of Sports (abridged). Featuring crazy...

On our drive across America's heartland, we pass the time debating the highs and lows of high and low comedy. Featuring definitions of the word sophomoric; celebrations of satire; a special appearance by legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning sports photographer Stan Grossfeld; a sexy, sensual, and smooth...