Much Ado About Muppets

It's the end of the season! Sasha brings us a Muppet-filled Hamlet and special guest Ellen walks us through Taming of the Shrew. Plus we talk about what we learned. Follow us on Instagram! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get ready for a particularly unhinged episode as the team reacts to Evan's spirited take on Much Ado About Nothing and special guest Kenjiro's thoughtful casting for Julius Caesar. Join us! Follow us on Instagram! - Kenjiro Lee (he/him) is a Korean/Japanese-American playwright, puppeteer, director, and occasional performer with an interest in the cerebral and the absurd. Selected works include: Se...

It's a new month and that means it's time for new Muppet castings. This week Peter is bringing you his take on Richard III with the surprising invention of a brand new Muppet, but first special guest Court delves into Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Also, we have a special guest doing our ad read, NYC-based costume designer Izzy Kitch! Follow us on Instagram! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

This week we start out strong with special guest Zach Barr muppet-casting (and adding a musical number to) Winter's Tale. Then Evan brings us a casting of Romeo and Juliet with some surprising deep-cut muppets portraying those two crazy kids from Verona. Follow us on Instagram! - Zach Barr (they/them) is a nonbinary multidisciplinary theatre artist based in Chicago. As a playwright, they’ve comple...

It's time for the Tempest! Peter takes us across storm tossed seas and to the shores of a Muppet (treasure) island, but first special guest Al brings us a Muppet Macbeth that boldly goes where no Muppet has gone before. Follow us on Instagram! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this inaugural episode of Much Ado About Muppets, Sasha guides Peter and Evan through their muppet-filled, but controversial take on A Midsummer Night's Dream. But first, guests Lauren Grace Thompson and Ian Geers delight us with "King Bear" a muppet re-casting of King Lear. Follow us on Instagram! - Lauren Grace Thompson and Ian Geers are the (award-winning!) creators/writers/directors of Fawx...

“All the worlds a stage… and sometimes the crown weighs rather heavy on this little froggy head.” Welcome to Much Ado About Muppets! Each week Peter, Sasha, and Evan will take some of Shakespeare's most famous plays and cast them with silliest gaggle of creatures ever to be made from felt, The Muppets! Will all that glitters be gold? Can the gang and their special guests come to some forgone concl...

Evan and Sasha celebrate the end of the season with an award show. Tune in to find out which was the best and worst of the Sherlocks, Watsons and rivals and which Sherlock media we didn’t get a chance to cover. Our old podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha and Evan wrap up the season with Enola Holmes 2, a bit of campy historical fiction where “all the important parts” are true? instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve been renewed for a second season… of Sherlock Drag Race that is! Sasha guides Evan through another round of the Drag Race simulator with new contestants like Enola Holmes, Wishbone and Jessica Rabbit, plus some returning favorites and well. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha and Evan enter the 2020’s with Netflix’s Enola Holmes, a surprisingly good film, where the main character talks to the camera like it’s an episode of Dora the Explorer. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan and Sasha are re-joined by Peter to discuss the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes and discover why a film made by Steven Spielberg, Chris Columbus and Barry Levinson is basically forgotten today. Peter’s Website: rulescenography.com instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha and Evan are joined by Star Trek aficionado Peter to discuss the TNG episode Elementary, Dear Data AI! Space Racism! A sympathetic Moriarty! instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eyes and Brains! Evan and Sasha cozy up to the tv for some Saturday morning cartoons, specifically Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, a fairly loose adaptation of the Doyle Canon where Watson is a Robot, Moriarty is a clone and Sherlock is weirdly sexist. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha and Evan discuss 2015’s Mr. Holmes, where Ian McKellan plays the aging detective in retirement. This film is like a parody of artsy british movies featuring: Wistfulness! Class Struggle! and Bees?! instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan, and Ellen wrap up their discussion of the first season finale of Elementary (with a brief diversion into Macedonian politics) before Sasha joins them to rate the show. Just pretend this is this weeks casebook. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan, Sasha and special guest Ellen discuss the penultimate two episodes of the first season of Elementary, the American answer to BBC Sherlock by way of crime procedural. We'll be back next week to discuss Elementary's thrilling season finale and rate it! instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha and Evan are joined by Ellen to discuss the 90’s TV series Wishbone where a dog imagines himself into literary classics, and specifically it’s adaptations of Scandal in Bohemia and Hound of the Baskervilles, you know, the one where Watson shoots a dog? We have audio issues but we stay silly :p instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emily rejoins Evan and Sasha to wade into the gayest Sherlock Holmes film ever made, a film which bizarrely wants to be a war-era spy thriller despite being set in 1891. Emily’s AO3 account! instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Affairs! A secret Baby! Opium! Ghosts? Sasha and Evan explore an episode of the Australian TV show, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries all about backstage drama at an opera company. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan and Sasha are joined by friend-of-the-pod, Emily to discuss Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr. This film has everything: Cults! Explosions! Homoeroticism! Listen to Emily’s guest spot on our last podcast! instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha guides Evan through a drag race simulator set to “Oops! all Sherlocks” on a season of television filled with twists and surprises. Who will be the next drag Sherlock superstar? Find out here instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sasha, Evan and Zach conclude their conversation about Sherlock Holmes musicals by discussing the series of wild choices that make up 1989’s Sherlock Holmes The Musical. Zach’s Website Zach’s YouTube Channel Zach’s Plays instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Evan and Sasha are joined by video-essayist and playwright Zach Barr to talk about Sherlock Holmes Musicals and boy do they all have a lot to say. Part one of this episode covers the occasionally baffling 1965 Broadway musical Baker Street. Check back next week for our coverage of the 80’s West End Musical, Sherlock Holmes. Zach’s YouTube Channel Zach’s Plays instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hos...

Sasha and Evan explore the Sherlock Holmes continuation, The Whole Art of Detection, by Lindsay Faye. instagram.com/_bakerstreetregulars Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.