To celebrate our 1000th podcast, we've put the whole live conversation up on YouTube. Here, Annoyance Theatre founder Mick Napier confesses the double-edged sword of their breakout hit "Co-Ed Prison Sluts: The Musical." Watch the whole thing here! youtu.be/KzxAQBBm8HE?...
06.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Annoyance Theatre (Episode #1000!) - Reduced Shakespeare Company
It's our 1000th episode! And we celebrated in high-style with a live recording onstage at Chicago's Annoyance Theatrewith Annoyance's founder and artistic director Mick Napier (Paradigm Lost, Exit 57)...
It's the 1000th episode of the world's oldest weekly theatre podcast. To celebrate, we chat with Mick Napier (Exit 57) and Jennifer Estlin, the founding artistic and executive director of Chicago's groundbreaking Annoyance Theatre. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
05.02.2026 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 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
Pretty sure we could hear you!
30.12.2025 19:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Meet The Cratchits - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Jon Hudson Odom and Helen Jon Lee (above) reveal how they bring surprising joy to their portrayals of the iconic Mr. and Mrs. Cratchit in this year's Goodman Theatre production of A Christmas Carol. J...
On the Pod: Jon Hudson Odom and Helen Joo Lee reveal how they bring 21st-century joy and identities to Dickens's iconic couple in this year's @goodmantheatre.bsky.social production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. God bless us, every one. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
24.12.2025 18:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quarter Century Caroler - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Gregory Hirte (above, with violin) reflects on the twenty-five years (!) he's been in the Goodman Theatre's annual production of A Christmas Carol, and how both he and the show have changed in that ti...
On the Pod: A CHRISTMAS CAROL @goodmantheatre.bsky.social is in its 48th year & actor/musician Greg Hirte, who's been in it for 25 of those years, reveals why he keeps coming back year after year. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
18.12.2025 00:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
cartoon: 2 panel cartoon.
Panel 1: close up of a volume dial going past 11 to a caricature of Rob Reiner
Panel 2: Spinal Tap in concert
This one goes to Heaven.
Cartoon: "This one goes to Heaven." With thanks to @thegreatlukeski.bsky.social for the tribute idea :)
16.12.2025 00:42 — 👍 324 🔁 89 💬 7 📌 1
Farah Karim-Cooper - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Folger Shakespeare Library director Farah Karim-Cooper's new book All the World's Your Stage explores for readers of all ages the life and times of William Shakespeare through eight of his most popula...
THIS WEEK: Farah Karim-Cooper, director of the @folger.edu, discusses "All The World's Your Stage," her new book that explores Shakespeare's life and times through eight of his most famous plays, for readers of all ages. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
26.11.2025 22:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hey Washington and Oregon!
We're performing "The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged)" on:
DECEMBER 3 – Edmonds WA
DECEMBER 4 – Olympia WA
DECEMBER 10 – Beaverton OR
DECEMBER 12 – Edmonds WA
Find links to the venues on our website here!
www.reducedshakespeare.com#tour
26.11.2025 22:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to be returning to the UK in 2026 with the show that started it all! #CompleteWorks #Shakespeare #CompleteShakespeare
21.11.2025 22:14 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“That’s too long for a play.”
William Shakespeare
19.11.2025 19:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Malkia’s Christmas Carol - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Malkia Stampley (above) is directing the Goodman Theatre's 48th annual production of A Christmas Carol (in previews now, opening Sunday, and running through New Year's Eve), and reflects how her exper...
Director Malkia Stampley returns to the Podcast to discuss how A CHRISTMAS CAROL @goodmantheatre.bsky.social (which she's directing for the first time) changes every year to reflect the world we live in. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
19.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Purple F***ing Pot - Reduced Shakespeare Company
To celebrate the start of the podcast's 20th Season, playwright and author Andrew Moorhead returns to talk about his play This Purple F***ing Pot, a new office comedy now getting a limited site-specif...
The RSC Podcast celebrates its 19th unbroken year of weekly episodes by talking to playwright Andrew Moorhead, whose new office comedy "This Purple F***ing Pot" begins its limited off-Broadway run this week. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
11.11.2025 23:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Improvised Shakespeare Company - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Chicago's Improvised Shakespeare Company celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2025, and founder/director Blaine Swendiscusses the company's humble origins and how it now performs regularly in Chicago an...
On the Podcast: Improvised Shakespeare Company celebrates its 20th anniversary w/ performances in Chicago, LA, and all over the country, and founder Blaine Swen discusses how ISC outgrew its humble origins. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
05.11.2025 21:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating The Bible - Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), an irreverent celebration of “the greatest story ever accepted as fact” that was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play, celebrates its 30t...
On the pod: Our sweet celebration of the Good Book premiered with no controversy 30 years ago at the Kennedy Center. Can you imagine?? We reminisce and marvel at how times have changed…for the worse. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
30.10.2025 20:04 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
(After Chicago Shakes, "Paranormal Activity" travels to the Ahmanson in LA, ACT in SF, and the Shakespeare Theatre in DC, NONE OF WHOM I CAN TAG ON HERE. Come on, get with it, you guys.)
23.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shannon Cochran’s ‘Paranormal’ - Reduced Shakespeare Company
Stage actor Shannon Cochran (August: Osage County) brings her horror movie bona fides (The Ring; The Hand That Rocks The Cradle) to the phenomenal new stage play Paranormal Activity, an original new s...
"Paranormal Activity" @chicagoshakes.bsky.social is a GREAT new play with amazing scares and surprising depth. On the podcast, Shannon Cochran discusses how she came to be part of it, and the surprising niche she finds herself in. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
23.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shakespeare In Harlem - Reduced Shakespeare Company
A hundred years on from the Harlem Renaissance, Gerrad Alex Taylor has adapted Langston Hughes’s Shakespeare in Harlem, which is having its world premiere this month at the University of Maryland Balt...
On the Podcast: Gerrad Alex Taylor discusses his world premiere adaptation of SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM, opening 10/30 @artsatumbc.bsky.social, which combines Shakespeare and Langston Hughes to canonize the Black experience. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
15.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rome Sweet Rome - Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Q Brothers Collective (Othello: The Remix; Funk It Up About Nothing) have created Rome Sweet Rome, a wild and satirical new “add-rap-tation” of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar now running at Chicago S...
On the Podcast: Danielle Davis & Bri Sudia discuss how the Q Brothers' ROME SWEET ROME @chicagoshakes.bsky.social, a musical comedy about the unintended consequences of political violence feels more necessary than ever. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)! @americantheatre.org
10.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Shakespearean James Shapiro - Reduced Shakespeare Company
James Shapiro wears many hats – author, scholar, cultural historian, consultant to New York's Public Theatre – discusses his work with actors and students, as well as his invaluable books A Year in th...
The great James Shapiro - author, educator, & Shakespeare consultant for New York's Public Theater - discusses his work, what he learns from actors, and how we turn to Shakespeare to understand the stakes of what's happening around us. HEAR HERE (or wherever you get your podcasts)!
13.08.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adam, Austin, Daniel, Jess, and Reed.
07.07.2025 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As are we!
07.07.2025 18:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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