Episode 448. Most Downloaded Podcasts (2014)

”With greater number-crunching power comes different search parameters! In the middle of 2015, we crunch the numbers again and discover the most downloaded podcasts of 2014 (or at least, the most downloaded podcasts of the second half of 2014). Featuring favorite guests, suspect math, literary revelations, podcasts from around the world, memories Read more…

Episode 414. Bob Mondello Talkback

” National Public Radio film critic Bob Mondello joined us onstage at the Reston Center Stage on the final night of our ten-day seven-show Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Appropriately enough, our closing performance was Completely Hollywood (abridged), and Bob squandered some of his credibility by discussing Read more…

Episode 410. Final Lost Works

”LIVE! From the Reston Center in Virginia comes the third and final episode of extracts from the evening of Lost Works from The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza. Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor play excerpts from their TBS pilot “The Week Reduced” and discuss that project’s legacy Read more…

Episode 408. RSC’s Lost Works

”LIVE! From the Reston Center Stage’s Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza comes this evening of Lost Works: readings, films, TV pilots, radio bits, and jokes so good they demanded to be cut from our shows. Featuring excellent banter, Jeopardy! contestant frustration, TV show-runner confusion, audience graciousness, and Read more…

Episode 406. Reduced Touring Origins

”One of the highlights of the first weekend of The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza at the Reston Community Center was a very special Q&A with founding RSC members Daniel Singer and Jess and Sa Winfield, who told the audience what it was like in 1987 when the Read more…

Episode 403. The Reston Extravaganza

”Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor announce an unprecedented event: The Complete Works of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (abridged) Extravaganza, produced by the Reston Community Center in Reston, VA, from September 12-21, 2014: seven shows in ten days, appearances from past and present members of the RSC, workshops, special performances, talkbacks, live Read more…

Episode 21. Happy Birthday Willy!

”Celebrate William Q. Shakespeare’s birthday with this collection of live performance readings from Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide For The Attention-Impaired (abridged). Also, excerpts from the BBC World Service’s Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show, the radio version of RSC Q&A, and a distinguished and plummy appearance by Dr. Peter Holland, McNeel Read more…