Pop-Up Shakespeare brings the Bard to unexpected corners of Nashville — coffee shops, breweries, bookstores, and all kinds of neighborhood hangouts. These one-night-only, fast-paced staged readings feature top Nashville theatre talent in a stripped-down, story-forward format that highlights Shakespeare’s language, humor, and heart. It’s lively, unbuttoned, and welcoming to all, proving you don’t need a traditional stage to enjoy the magic of Shakespeare. Back in the late 16th century, farces based on mistaken identities had audiences rolling in the aisles! And The Comedy of Errors, perhaps Shakespeare’s earliest comedy (c. 1594, but not published until 1623), features not one, but TWO sets of identical twins (with identical names, if you can believe it), who keep on getting confused with one another. Sure, it may all sound a little silly, but renowned literary scholar Harold Bloom wrote that this early comedy "reveals Shakespeare's magnificence at the art of comedy.”