Austin Tichenor News

They?ve gone biblical, they?ve gone historical, and now the Reduced Shakespeare Company has gone Completely Hollywood (abridged). After all, Hollywood is America?s largest export, so Tinseltown?s glorious ridiculousness is the perfect subject for The Reduced Shakespeare Company?s signature reductive touch. Completely Hollywood (abridged) shakes up showbiz in an epic edit of movie masterpieces. All of Hollywood?s glorious moments ? both onscreen and off ? are captured as the bad boys of abridgement masterfully miniaturize almost 200 of Hollywood?s greatest movies in 100 minutes! (Actual greatness may vary.)

It's apocalypse now as the three cultural guerrillas of The Reduced Shakespeare Company set their reductive sites on The Bible. Can bolts of lightning be far behind?

Along the way, RSC captured nominations for London's Olivier Award, two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, D.C., and international appearances at the White House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and American Repertory Theatre. International tours included stops in Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Japan, Malta, Belgium, The Netherlands, Singapore, Bermuda and Barbados.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company unleash theatrical anarchy on the main stage at the Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, with previews beginning October 2, opening October 7 and 9 and running through December 2 for Chicago premieres of two comedies: Completely Hollywood (abridged), opening Sunday, October 7 at 3 pm, and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged), opening Tuesday, October 9 at 8 pm.