Folger Shakespeare Library Celebrates Shakespeare’s 461st Birthday
*Lead image generated with Gemini AI Later this week, the Folger Shakespeare Library invites Washington, D.C. locals and visitors alike
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[Vid] Exclusive Tour Inside Folger’s ‘How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition’
How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition, opened at the Folger Shakespeare Library in late February, and K Street
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Folger Library’s New Quill & Crumb a CapHill Community HotSpot
The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Great Hall has recently completed its transformation from an exhibition space to a public gathering place.
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Five of the Coolest Reasons to Visit the Revamped Folger Shakespeare Library, Plus One You Should Already Know
In addition to an up-close look at the Library’s 82 First Folios, there are five other extremely cool reasons to visit the new Folger Shakespeare Library.
Read MoreFolger’s ‘Metamorphoses’ is Movement, Myth, Black Magic
Director Psalmayene 24 calls Folger’s Metamorphoses a “mythic choreo-drama” that has within it “almost everything that makes us human.” And indeed it is a spellbinding potpourri of the constantly evolving state of the world.
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 2023/2024 Season
The Folger Shakespeare Library announced its 2024-2025 Season theme of Whose Democracy?, the first time a theme has been activated across all performances in a season.
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Entirely Unexpected: Folger Theatre Opens Season with The Winter’s Tale
While it’s not yet fully re-opened to the public after renovation, Folger Shakespeare Library — home to the world’s largest Shakespeare collection — has welcomed visitors back to its award-winning historic stage with a performance of The Winter’s Tale that is entirely unexpected.
Read MoreFolger Theatre To Unveil New Space in Time for the New Season
The Folger Shakespeare Library (almost presciently) closed its historic building for a scheduled renovation in March 2020 and now, after over three years of “On the Road” programming, DC’s Elizbethan-style theatre — and new public spaces — are ready to host performances, concerts, and readings starting on November 17, 2023.
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Folger Theatre Presents An April of The Bard — and a World Premiere Play
Throughout the month of April, the Folger Theatre will be Searching for Shakespeare: Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeare’s First Folio — which is actually a citywide celebration in partnership with DC Public Library. The month of Bard-filled bliss features a historic exhibition of the First Folio, a DC-wide Scavenger Hunt, Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture, family programs, and the presentation of a world premiere performance work.
Read MorePoetry Readings Live from Emily Dickinson’s House, Anyone?
For over 50 years, the Folger Shakespeare Library has held its O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, and 2020 will be no
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