Bad Quarto Pod

It’s the Season 1 Finale! Liz and Michael Jay engage in fun and games that concern the nine plays they’ve read for Bad Quarto. Antics ensue! Characters compete ...

Ew! Titus Andronicus is as bloody and vengeful as they come. That’s okay, however, because the play appeals to our goth sensibilities, and literally features Goths! ...

OMG, the title isn’t ironic! Liz and Michael Jay present this crazy-ass play with two sets of twins, from two different towns, who share names, and end up ...

Pericles? More like Where Is He?! This peripatetic drama shuffles all about the Ancient Greek world and involves incest, a goddess cult, a prince on the run ...

Not just antics, antics AND shenanigans. This witty play set in Vienna features a bad-ass nun, an absent duke, an activist madam, a fantastic, sassy drunks ...

A play about King John with no mention of the goddamn Magna Carta! Dynastic rivalries! Ephebes jumping from castle walls!

Girl, we don’t know who told you that you didn’t need to read Cymbeline. But whoever it was, was wrong. It’s literature, honey!

To quote Rihanna, Shakespeare aficionado, “Bitch better have my money!” This week we talk about Timon of Athens, the play about a guy who gives away jewels as party favors.

Noble, hunky, and fresh out of Thebes. Bad Quarto discusses The Two Noble Kinsmen, Shakespeare’s last, wacky tragedy about two cousins who fall in love with the same foxy lady.

Honey, this play has it all. Or a lot of it. Or some of it. Bad Quarto takes on Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare’s play about doomed lovers amidst the Trojan War.