@austintichenor.bsky.social
Actor/Author. POP-UP SHAKESPEARE; FOOL (adaptation); COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel); DAISY THE LITTLEST ZOMBIE. Writer @folger.edu. A.D. @reduced.bsky.social + host of world's longest-running theatre podcast. TheShakespeareance.com ReducedShakespeare.com
I love well-written criticism, especially when it's a rave!! My adaptation of @theauthorguy.bsky.social's FOOL is a "sharp, quick-witted script...both smartly constructed and unabashedly fun."
I'll be at the final 2 shows this Saturday if anyone wants to join me!
curtain-up.com/review/revie...
Love all these! Let me also recommend “Free for All: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told”.
05.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Greeley Garage Sale Theatre is presenting the 2nd production of FOOL: THE HILARIOUS TRUE STORY OF KING LEAR, my adaptation of @theauthorguy.bsky.social's best-selling novel (and featuring @timidwerewolf.bsky.social as a fetching Sister Basil). Check it out if you can! Call (970) 573-6332 tor tix.
31.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 30 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
On 2/2, celebrate the RSC Podcast's 1000th episode with a LIVE RECORDING at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, where @austintichenor.bsky.social will interview Mick Napier & Jennifer Estlin, Annoyance's founder & exec director. JOIN US! @americantheatre.org Tix: theannoyance.thundertix.com/events/259355
24.01.2026 20:32 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Shakespeare's poetry, plots, and characters have inspired dozens of musicals, as well as comic songs and even special cameos. @austintichenor.bsky.social explores the musical theater that keeps us brushing up our Shakespeare: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
23.01.2026 23:06 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It's why the original "This is Spinal Tap" works so well. The musicianship is exceptional.
22.01.2026 19:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"[Young Frankenstein] taught several generations a key lesson in crafting genre send-ups: Get it as close to the source material as possible, and the friction between the familiar and the ridiculous nearly sells itself."
and
"We could use more of Brooks’ style of high and low (humor) right now."
Ugh. I’m so sorry.
16.01.2026 02:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Servers, cooks, clerks - ICE is coming to your town. Leave no drink unspit in, no food item undefiled. They're putting your coworkers in camps and murdering people in the streets.
Thank you for your service.
So @apple, ready to put ICEBLOCK back up on the app store? Or do you prefer the role of accessory to murder?
07.01.2026 18:35 — 👍 149 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 1To av or not to tar, that is the question.
27.12.2025 17:11 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0My family saw it on Christmas Day the year it came out and my very proper mother, who, like me, loved the book, declared loudly when the lights came up at the end, “Stanley Kubrick’s a jerk!”
26.12.2025 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
1st Christmas in 30 years with no kids in the house. Yet @daisytich still woke us up yesterday morning with a FaceTime call and @quincetagram checked in from his honeymoon on the other side of the world. Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day to you and your family, wherever you/they are!
26.12.2025 20:43 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thank you. Happy Christmas!
25.12.2025 07:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Losing loved ones at the holidays sucks. My Dad died 10yrs ago today and 2 days ago we lost Pat Finn, the funniest and kindest actor in the history of the biz. He and Dee Second City’d together and he was like family to all who knew him. Sending love to his actual family and his MANY friends.
24.12.2025 23:34 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0He was the best, as are you, my friend. Yes, there can be two bests.
24.12.2025 19:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0😂
I will say, however, that both films were dangerously overhyped and — even though I liked them — overrated.
Here are my Responsible Opposing Viewpoints to two of those.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Can’t watch till Monday night cuz every other night through New Year’s Eve I’m — appropriately — CAROLing.
20.12.2025 17:57 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The 'up to eleven' scene from Spinal Tap, but instead of a speaker Nigel Tufnel is talking about, it's the man with 6 fingers on one hand from The Princess Bride holding up both of his hands.
"if we need that extra push over the cliffs of insanity"
20.12.2025 16:13 — 👍 156 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 4
My 1st book. 2 bucks. www.amazon.com/dp/B000GCFBY...
18.12.2025 16:16 — 👍 150 🔁 24 💬 30 📌 9
Time to bust out these classics again, to celebrate the early work of two legends, one miraculously still alive, the other taken from us tragically senselessly infuriatingly far too soon. #RobReiner #DickVanDyke #PhysicalMediaRules
15.12.2025 20:58 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
You’re right, it wasn’t great casting. Nonetheless, I’m such a fan that since he skipped the Easter matinee I had tickets for in SF, I drove to Reno to see him later in the tour. It was great to see him on stage, but his understudy was better.
12.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At the risk of being That Guy (who am I kidding? I am That Guy) after having played Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s BOOK OF WILL, I was thrown out of the movie HAMNET when I saw Shakespeare’s Hamlet was played, not by Burbage, but by the actual actor playing the role in the movie! Just me?
12.12.2025 18:54 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Always worth a re-read.
11.12.2025 06:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In fairness, this guy knows all about not being suited for world-class diplomacy.
11.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooh…! Smell you! I’d love to hear that conversation.
06.12.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HAMNET opened yesterday and you should all see it. I shared my thoughts over @folger.edu, but suffice to say Jessie Buckley is a force of nature and I can’t wait to see it again.
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
