Austin Tichenor

Huge fan, and now I’m kicking myself I never put this together.

Perfect! Especially if the poodle is a guide dog that can help the von Trapps climb the right mountain.

“Crisp apple strudel” doesn’t rhyme as perfectly as one would wish with “routes you can Google”.

Forgot I had this. Can’t wait to see how Big Blue smashes Zack Snyder.

!!! Thanks for this preview! I’m behind and grateful for the tease.

I’d prefer dog duty, too.

Ha. Dog duty.

Our son’s getting married this fall and my wife Dee, a student of both politics and Project Runway, observed that wedding styles (like so much else) have returned us to the 1930s.
Very fascist-forward.

Anyone who’s heard my RSC songs knows how influential Tom Lehrer was to me. My high school senior quote from his “Folk Song Army” recognized that Art – Comedy especially – is an act of resistance. Grateful to my parents for this album and proud to have passed the #LehrerLove on to my kids.

I am never forget the day!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (ABRIDGED) to Open at Atlanta Shakespeare Company This August The Atlanta Shakespeare Company will present WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (ABRIDGED) by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, with direction by Andrew Houchins, running August 2–17, 2025, at ...

Very excited that @atlshakespeareco.bsky.social is producing LONG LOST SHAKES next month. Please go see it and tell me how it is! www.broadwayworld.com/atlanta/arti...

"Let belief take hold:" Shakespeare and James Gunn's Superman | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

I watched "Tromeo and Juliet" so you don't have to for @folger.edu.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

CBS cancelling Colbert? Cowardly bullshit.
CBS cancelling Colbert the same week as the new season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" drops on Paramount+? EVEN WORSE.

"Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you"

"What is the city but the people?" Performing Coriolanus with Chicago's Back Room Shakespeare Project | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

"Serious actors. No director. One rehearsal. In a bar." That's the Back Room Shakespeare Project's motto and it makes for a unique relationship between actor and audience that @austintichenor.bsky.social writes enhances the power of Shakespeare's work. Now on our blog: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Oh look. As of today, I've now been performing with @reduced.bsky.social over half my life. Hey ho.

Present!

Love the Trojan Horse of the much more interesting discussion of R&J being buried in a "Is AI Bad?" piece. (OF COURSE IT'S FUCKING BAD.)

Loved @questlove.bsky.social’s film SLY LIVES, especially when Shakespeare holds forth about THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS. Bravo.

*Poins
#stupidautocorrect

My friend Adrian Scarborough doubled as Point & a VERY old Justice Silence. In one of the best sight gags I've ever seen Wood broke up his line "Come on, come on, come on" with great pauses in between as Silence shuffled s l o w l y downstage while Wood & Gambon stood still and threw focus.

I saw Gambon as Falstaff in 2H4 at the National and he had a quiet, almost Steve Martin energy, especially in the soliloquies. Matthew Macfadyen played Hal and John Wood was Justice Shallow.

Me too, buddy! Come on over anytime!

It was wild. Actors and audience alike got *inside* the play in a way only possibly in the close confines of the Hideout's back room. Sam Pearson was a powerful leader (onstage and off) and Gregory Linington a formidable Aufidius.

Like! (What can I say? I’m a sucker for a compliment.)

This grim-visaged warrior actually got a few laughs in last Monday's CORIOLANUS by the Back Room Shakespeare Project, cut to a fleet & fierce 85 minutes by Sam Pearson (bloody C himself) and performed in Chicago's tiny Hideout tavern. #TheFaultDearBrutusIsNotInOurBars

Happy #Juneteenth! I first learned about Crispus Attucks, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge & many others in BLACK AND WHITE by "Wee Pals" cartoonist Morrie Turner. Published 1969 by Troubador Press (which my dad joined in the 70s), I have 1 copy left. Somebody publish it again!

Flavored (8).

#ShakespeareSunday
#FoundingFathersDay

#NoKings
#NoFauxKingWay
#ShakespeareSaturday

Lovely to see THE WILDES by @louisbayard.bsky.social so prominently displayed in my local library, where it was recently (and unsurprisingly) a very popular book club pick!