WASHINGTON — The Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening its historic home on Capitol Hill to the public on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, after a major three-year building renovation. The renovation will ...

“Clear your calendars. Pocket your notes”: So begins a Rita Dove poem beside a new garden path that leads visitors away from the official world of Capitol Hill and into the soon-to-reopen Folger ...

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler has ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library on D.C.’s Capitol Hill estimates it will remain closed into 2024 due to ongoing renovations, after originally planning to reopen in November. In a news release Wednesday ...

The Capitol Hill landmark closed to the public in March of 2020, just before COVID caused everything else to close as well. But the $80.5 million renovation designed by the Philadelphia-based ...

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a production at ...

Update: The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Capitol Hill building will not reopen until 2024, the library said Aug. 9. The exact date in 2024 has not yet been determined. Folger attributed the delay to ...

“This printing press,” says Greg Prickman of the Folger Shakespeare Library. “We had it built for the space, so it’s not an artifact. People can handle it, and it helps us tell the story of the book.” ...

WETA Arts host Felicia Curry takes you inside the newly transformed Folger, home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related books and manuscripts. Explore how the Folger’s innovative ...

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April 23 marks what many believe to be both the birth, in 1564, and death, in 1616, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, of William Shakespeare, widely considered to be the world’s greatest playwright.

Holiday decor, festive musical performances, family-friendly and Shakespeare-themed activities, and special celebrations for Jane Austen's 250th birthday are all a part of this year's festival ...