Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast


Latest Episodes

Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Villette’
January 31, 2023

Playwright Sara Gmitter (In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story) returns to Chicago's Tony-winning Lookingglass Theatre for the world premiere of her adaptation of Charlotte Bront's novel Villette and returns to the Podcast to discuss how the production

Reviewing London’s ‘Streetcar’
January 23, 2023

Our 'London Entertainment Correspondent' (!) Elizabeth Dennehy reviews the transformative Almeida Theatre production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Rebecca Frecknall and starring Paul Mescal and Patsy Ferran (above). Elizabet

Chicago Magic Lounge
January 16, 2023

Part speakeasy bar, part magic theater, the Chicago Magic Lounge presents live magic shows seven nights a week in its two performance spaces, its bar, and at your own table. It's incredible immersive theater and the brainchild of Joey Cranford, the founde

Subversive Improv Guide
January 09, 2023

David Razowsky has written A Subversives Guide to Improvisation: Moving Beyond Yes, And, a fascinating, helpful, and inspiring new book that features incredibly insightful advice and exercises improvisers (actors!) can do on their own or in groups. An

Shakespeare And Fantasy
January 03, 2023

Bryan Cogman, a four-time Emmy-winning writer and co-executive producer of Game of Thrones and a consulting producer on The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, discusses the rise of televised fantasy and how a grounding in Shakespeare enabled his abili

Sherlock & Scrooge
December 28, 2022

Allen Gilmore (above, right) plays Ebenezer Scrooge in A Sherlock Carol, a holiday mashup of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle now running in both New York (where Allen is) and London. A veteran Scrooge (having played him for many years at the Go

Cabaret ZaZou’s “Luminaire”
December 20, 2022

Cabaret ZaZou's Luminaire, an intimate, interactive cabaret/cirque production performed inside a European spiegeltent on the 14th floor of the Cambria Hotel in downtown Chicago, is one of Chicagos best-kept theatrical secrets.Frank Ferrante, the legen

Growing Up Nutcracker
December 13, 2022

A family affair this week as host Austin Tichenor is joined by his brother John Tichenor and sister Amy Tichenor Moorhead to discuss their early years performing The Nutcracker for the Metropolitan Ballet Company in Oakland, CA, in the 1970s. The siblings

Lamb’s 20th Anniversary
December 06, 2022

Christopher Moore returns to talk about his wise comic novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in this year of our Lord 2022. Chris discusses how wanted to create a tale of friendship and end

Saluting The Understudies
November 28, 2022

Stand-ins of the world, stand up! (Tom Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound) 2022 will be remembered as the Year of the Understudy not only did the Patron Saint of the Understudy King Charles III finally step into the leading role after waiting in the w