There was little lunacy on my show when Reduced Shakespeare Company members Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor, and Dominic Conti dropped by. They’re in town performing their newest, “Completely Hollywood (Abridged)” at The Rep, which I saw the other night — it’s another laugh-out-loud show lampooning just about every movie cliche you can think of, and several […]
Austin Tichenor, one-third of the Reduced Shakespeare Company has taken to YouTube and posted this clever ditty he wrote and performed in the RSC’s “The Complete History Of Comedy (abridged).” As a longtime fan, I’ve made it my Picture Of The Day.
I’ve been a fan of the Reduced Shakespeare Company since I first saw them at the Kennedy Center nearly two decades ago. Since then, I have seen almost all of their productions — in which they have reduced Shakespeare, the Bible, the History of America, All The Great Books, and Hollywood. Tonight, I’ll see their […]
I first encountered The Reduced Shakespeare Company — in the person of Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, and Matt Croke — about 15 years ago when they played the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. I was doing mornings at DC101 at the time, and after seeing their second production, The Complete History of America (abridged), invited […]
This new musical farce is based on a real story of British spies fooling Hitler about where the Allies would mount an assault on the beaches of Sicily in 1943. I loved it on Broadway last week. Here’s my review.
A few stories from a recent weekend in Las Vegas with my wife and daughter, including a stunning state park visit, a Harry Potter show, & a magical night of card tricks and mentalism.
I spent the weekend celebrating my mother’s 93rd birthday with her, and my wife and daughter in New York City. While there, we took in three Broadway shows of different genres: a feel-good musical about 9/11, a farce where everything goes wrong, and a Noel Coward play starring Kevin Kline. The best of the three […]
That’s Tony-winner Christian Borle as William Shakespeare in “Something Rotten,” in a performance at the White House that reminds me of Tim Curry. I’m returning to “Something Rotten” because in writing about it yesterday, I mentioned how the show pokes fun at other musicals, but I neglected to mention that its creators had never created […]
Austin Tichenor and Dominick Conti — two-thirds of the Reduced Shakespeare Company* — were in the studio with me to talk about their latest production, “The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged). We took it from the beginnings (cave comedy) through Abe Lincoln’s standup comedy and into modern times, and I had Austin perform his signature […]
I’m happy to report that the ban has been lifted on the Reduced Shakespeare Company‘s show, “The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (abridged)” in Northern Ireland. As the Belfast Telegraph reports, the show will go on: Anger had been growing since it was revealed the council’s artistic board – made up of councillors and […]