It's a Play, Not a History Lesson - Playwright Richard Nelson reflects on the early days of Shakespeare in the Park
Tony-winning dramatist Richard Nelson reflects on the early days of Shakespeare in the Park---A beloved summer tradition for theatregoers, the Public Theater's free, star-studded Shakespeare in the Park may seem as old as Central Park itself. But in the late 1950s, the New York Shakespeare Festival (as it was originally known) was still a nascent and controversial company, a group of ambitious young theatre-makers le…