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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: The Nashville Summer Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 34th year
Description: This year marks the 34th anniversary of the Nashville Summer Shakespeare Festival, which puts on free, outdoor performances of The Bard and other playwrights’ work. This year, the festival includes Cymbeline and, starting on the 25th, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.
To learn more about how the festival got its start and how it relates to Nashville’s broader theater community, we’re joined by the executive artistic director and managing director. Then, we’ll hear from the directors of both plays about their productions and what meaning we can take from them today.
But first, W...