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 MoreDirector 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.Â
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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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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.Â
Read MoreThe 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. Â
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Throughout the month of April, the Folger Theatre will be Searching for Shakespeare: Celebrating 400 Years of Shakespeareâs 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, Shakespeareâs Birthday Lecture, family programs, and the presentation of a world premiere performance work.
Read MoreFor over 50 years, the Folger Shakespeare Library has held its O.B. Hardison Poetry Series, and 2020 will be no
Read MoreThe Folger Shakespeare Library usually does an all-day open house to fĂȘte Shakespeare’s birthday in April. But… COVID. So this
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