“THE OSCARS OF TWITTER!” Winners Announced March 3
(140 characters or less) real-time content.” Translated, that means the award is given to the person or company who uses and exploits the social network Twitter to its maximum effect. The Shorty Awards have been called “the Oscars of Twitter” by CNN and USA Today.
Well, who else should win a Shorty Award but a Reduced Shakespeare Company?! We’ve been producers of reduced content for years.
We Tweet mostly ‘cuz it’s fun. Twitter’s a great way to mini-blog about what we’re up to, to dialogue with our fans, and to spread the love about other things and people we see and love and want to proselytize about. But to get an award for it? That’d be awesome.
Shorty Awards are given in a number of categories (each designated by a hashtag), from #advertising, #apps, and #art to #tech, #travel, and #weird. We’re a finalist in the #culturalinstitution category, primarily because there is no #theatre category.
Final voting ends Friday February 5 at noon EST. Anybody with an active Twitter account can vote (you can’t just create a Twitter account to vote, they’re too clever to allow that). Finalists are judged not only on the quality of their Tweets, but also the number and quality of your votes! So when you go to the Shorty Awards website and fill in the vote box (“I vote for @reduced for a Shorty Award in #culturalinstitution because…”), please make the reason cool and brief!
Numbers count too. As of today, we have almost 2500 Followers! If only ten percent of you vote, we’ll win.
TICKETS to LOST
Wanna be there?! The final series of Lost starts on ABC on February 2nd in the US, and on Sky1 and Sky1 HD on February 5th in the UK. To celebrate, we're condensing the last 5 seasons into less than 10 Read more
LOST REDUCED: World Premiere!
press release LOST REDUCED - Watch it here! FIVE SEASONS OF LOST IN TEN MINUTES Reduced Shakespeare Company Perform world premiere London, 28th January BY INVITATION ONLY With the hotly anticipated sixth and final season of LOST launching on February 5th, Read more
SHOWS ADDED in Sonoma, CA
Completely Hollywood (abridged) Feb 10 - Santa Rosa Junior College Feb 12 & 13 - Sebastiani Theater This just in: We have added three performances of Completely Hollywood (abridged) to our Winter 2010 tour. On February 10, 2010, we’ll be performing Read more
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IT’S OFFICIAL! RSC Returns to the Kennedy Center in 2010
They’ve gone biblical, they’ve gone historical, now the RSC has gone completely Hollywood…abridged, of course. In Completely Hollywood (abridged), America’s best-loved comedy troupe boldly goes where few would dare – Tinseltown. Completely Hollywood (abridged) analyzes in typically reduced depth the 175 greatest films from Hollywood’s over 100 year history.
The versatile and flexible actors have received rave reviews of their performances in the witty and quick condensations of the most serious material, from Shakespeare to the history of America to the Bible.
Completely Hollywood (abridged) is written and directed by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor with additional material by Dominic Conti. All three are also the original cast members, and will be performing their creation at the Kennedy Center.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company has been seen at the Kennedy Center in The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) and The Complete History of America (abridged) in 1994; The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) in 1995; The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged) in 1999; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) 2001, All the Great Books (abridged) in 2003 and again in 2006, when they performed in rep with The Complete History of America (abridged).
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GORDON Brown: Tragic Shakespearean Hero
We have finally reduced the career of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and may I just say - it's about time. We recorded it for the Gabby Logan Show on BBC Radio 5. You can listen to it here, but now you Read more
FOLLOW Us on Twitter!
Yes, Twitter is a time-sucking distraction from your real life. We don't disagree. But it's also the fastest and easiest way to keep up with Reduced Shakespeare Company activities in anything approaching real-time. Some RSC fans have families, jobs, other interests Read more
RSC ‘Tweets’ on NPR
Austin Tichenor spoke with NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon about the Reduced Music and Movie Name Game they were playing on Twitter. To read more about it - and to listen to it via streaming - click here.Then click over Read more
Matt Rippy Joins UK ‘Bible’ Cast
RSC veteran Matt Rippy is joining the UK cast of The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) for the final five weeks of its 97-city UK tour. Matt joins Jack Bennett, Simon Cole, and William Meredith who have been performing Read more
“Reduced Bailout” Airs On BBC World Service
Response is coming in from all over the world to the Reduced Shakespeare Company's analysis of the American economic bailout on the October 4 edition of The World Today on the BBC World Service.Listen to it here on the web! Or Read more
Rockin’ With Laughter
Hey gang --Austin Tichenor here, wanting to get in on the ol' Tour Blog action.... If ever there was any proof needed that we rock wherever we perform, take a gander at this photo of the Bedford pub in Balham, South Read more