In Each Retelling

Send us Fan Mail Here I interview the author of Our Own Little Underworld and I'm in Love With Mothman , retellings of the myth of Hades & Persephone, and Beauty and the Beast respectively...one of which was completely by accident. Here we discuss two romances that are very sweet in spite of their dark appearances, as well as what draws people to them. The following podcast is for enterta...

Send us Fan Mail Monster Month is a state of mind on In Our Retellings , the podcast where we explore all the ways old tales are made new...by creating our own! Here Grady, Shamila, Sam, and River pitch their own retellings of classic monster stories...but also Hamlet. Here be mad scientists, mythical and fairytale connections, racebending, cyber AND New England gothic vibes, and scariest of all,...

Send us Fan Mail The rumors are true folks, Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster will be taking over the roles of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett a month after Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford depart the roles. This has left the Broadway fandom torn between the Tveitor Tots and "the gays who love Sutton", and those who feel this is stunt casting. What do Sam, Bex, and I think? Find out more as we...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Halloween, and welcome to yet ANOTHER new segment of the podcast! Do you need a quick and funny introduction or refresher on some spooky old stories? Do you like to roast unethical mad scientists and masked musicians who live under the opera house? Do you wish people would be nicer to female characters from old stories? Then join us as we do our best to summarize Rappaccini&...

Send us Fan Mail A brief statement regarding the promised episode on  The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter needing to be postponed. Watch this space for IER TLDR: Monster Month Edition. Support the show Find more information on this podcast as well as myself at the following links. https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@faeriviera https://twitter.com/FaeRiviera https:/...

Send us Fan Mail This week for  Monster Month, Sam, Shami, Grady, and I are starting a new segment called Around the Campfire , where my guests and I engage in one of the oldest storytelling traditions, telling ghost stories around...the ambient sound of a campfire...look, we're long distance friends, what do you want from us? Experience ghost stories from across the eastern half of the US an...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's continuation of Monster Month, there are many scary things to grapple with; the fact that Count Dracula and Edward Rochester aren't that different from real life abusive men, the way certain female characters in these classic stories get demonized...the fact that Jasmine was deeply concerned with having to defend a book she actually LIKED from Sam and Rive...

Send us Fan Mail Buckle up, Creampuffs! This week one of our biggest groups yet continue Monster Month by covering the first season of the little webseries that could. Somehow we manage to balance out our squealing to actually say intelligent things about something we're all huge fans of.  The following podcast is for entertainment purposes only. The views and opinions expressed therein are s...

Send us Fan Mail Swing your razors wide for our first episode of Monster Month where Sam, Callie, and I sink our teeth into the thrilling concert version of Sondheim's macabre masterpiece! Here we gush over the immensely talented cast, compare it to the current Broadway production starring Josh Groban, and discuss the types of productions we'd like to see in the future. Settle down with...

Send us Fan Mail In this fair podcast where we lay our scene, Jasmine tries Try Guys for the first time! With Bex, River, and Shami as her guides, she discovers that Keith Habersberger might be the ultimate Juliet, that there are certain weapons that are capable of making people (or at least the audience) die of laughter, and that absurdity and tragedy need not be mutually exclusive. The following...

Send us Fan Mail Do you remember the 21st night of September when we suddenly found out there was a new serialized podcast adaptation of Dracula starring goth preteen versions of Mina and Lucy, and Bradley Whitford as Grandpa Van Helsing? Well Shami, Callie, and I sure do, and we're going batty for it! Here we discuss the casting news, as well as the pilot episode and our speculations on the...

Send us Fan Mail Earlier this week, Bill Willingham, renowned comic book writer of the series Fables announced he intended to release his series into the public domain due to  irreconcilable differences between him and DC.  Here, Shami, Grady, and I air our grievances against him as a writer, and explain why we still side with him over DC, and discuss the implications of this news. The following p...

Send us Fan Mail For centuries, people have tried to tame  The Taming of the Shrew,  the Shakespearean "comedy" about how abuse is the best way to make an unpleasant woman marriage material.  In the YA novel  If I'm Being Honest , married couple Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka posit "Wait, what if the shrew tamed  herself ." A bold strategy...that if you ask our...

Send us Fan Mail Who would have thought that a so bad it's not even fun monster movie that was made in two days and was never even copywritten would lead to a smash hit musical that the likes of Constance Wu and Corbin Bleu would be thrilled to be a part of? Here Jasmine, Shami, and Bex gush over the delights of Little Shop of Horrors, and how exciting it is to see them branch out into what t...

Send us Fan Mail If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that there are few things as satisfying as an underdog getting her dues, and perhaps that's why you'll find a Cinderella story for nearly every culture in the world. This episode, Sam and Shami join me in discussing a number of picture books that tell the Cinderella stories that come from Ancient Egypt, South Afric...

Send us Fan Mail Due to some further clarification on the guidelines for the #ReadforMaui challenge, as well as simply finding more options, we've decided to do a second part of this. Shami joins me again as we delve into books where indigenous authors of Polynesian cultures keep their stories and storytelling traditions alive, which a special shoutout to the story of Kapaemahu . Check out th...

Send us Fan Mail As Shakespeare once said, "Brevity is the soul of wit", and that's why not everything that is recorded for this podcast makes it to the final episode, but I also don't believe in what Hemingway said about killing your darlings. I believe in saving your darlings for another project....this is that project. Enjoy the wacky tangents and bloopers guys! Music from #...

Send us Fan Mail There are no small parts, only small actors, and this episode is proof of that as we discuss WETC'S production of Midsummer with Hannah, Grady, and Sam (once again, because they live in the wall now), as well as the importance of making Shakespeare accessible in education. Content Warning: swearing, and rantings about the SAG-AFTRA/WGA Strike. Additionally, many technical dif...

Send us Fan Mail Breaking News! The #ReadforMaui challenge has begun to raise money to support Maui during unprecedented wildfires. To help promote this worthy cause, Shami and Jasmine discuss books written by Hawaiian authors that are retellings of the very stories we discuss on this podcast! The following podcast contains swearing and mentions of erotica. #ReadforMaui Links Information & Gui...

Send us Fan Mail What better time than the middle of summer to talk about Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , and what better place to celebrate the World's Elsewhere Theatre Company's production of it than a podcast with mostly members of the rep? In the first of two episodes discussing WETC's first production from all the way back in 2020, I speak with Ilana Greenb...

Send us Fan Mail Gatsby Month comes to an end with our first segment of  Retelling the News , where Sam, Callie, Shami and I discuss two   separate productions of musicals adapting The Great Gatsby currently in progress, and the possibilities of each one. Warning, here be theatre kid foolishness. Additionally, I interview musician Violette Remington regarding her own musical take on Fitzgerald&apo...

Send us Fan Mail Gatsby Month continues, and Justin and Jasmine spoil Self Made Boys by Anne Marie McLemore for Shamila, in spite of their very different opinions on the book! This opens up discussions on the merits of Fix It Fanfiction, escapism, and the necessity of challenging literature.  Disclaimer: This podcast was recorded before the content creator guidelines were announced by SAG-AFTRA in...

Send us Fan Mail A brief statement regarding why the new episode hasn't been posted, and the future of this podcast in light of recent updates on the writer and actor strike. Support the show Find more information on this podcast as well as myself at the following links. https://faeriviera.tumblr.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@faeriviera https://twitter.com/FaeRiviera https://ineachretelling.tu...

Send us Fan Mail It's In Each Retelling's first interview, with our very special guest, Mr. Ben Crew, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! We are continuing Gatsby month by discussing the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational fan script he wrote in 2021 for a Muppety version of The Great Gatsby, as well as his upcoming novel, Van Helsing's Guide to Monsters and Dating...

Send us Fan Mail July is Gatsby Month, because what better way to celebrate America's birthday than discussing the novel about the futility of the American Dream? We begin with the Baz Luhrmann directed, Leonardo DiCaprio starring 2013 adaptation to ask the question if all the bombast and heightened reality obscures the very point of that one novel most people seemed to actually enjoy reading...