Capparella Appears in Shakespeare Festival Pop-Up
On May 3, 2026, DPBC’s Donald Capparella played King Henry in a pop-up performance of Henry IV, Part 1 at Streetcar Taps & Garden, as part of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Pop-Up Shakespeare Series.
The Pop-Up Shakespeare Series brings the Bard to unexpected locations in Nashville - coffee shops, breweries, bookstores, etc., presenting one-time-only, fast-paced staged readings featuring professional theatre talent in a stripped-down, story-forward format that highlights Shakespeare’s language, humor, and heart.
Founded in 1988 by a group of actors, including Donald Capparella, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival has grown into a pillar of the Arts in the Nashville community, presenting Shakespeare in the Park free-of-charge every summer in Centennial Park, offering educational outreach to schools through shows, camps, and workshops across the region, and creating job opportunities for local artists, technicians, and educators.
NSF founder Donald Capparella has established a reputation as one of Tennessee’s most respected appellate attorneys, with his experience handling a wide variety of matters, from seminal tort law cases to work on many of Tennessee’s landmark cases in other areas of law.
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