The Reading Room Festival
1/30 - 2/2/2025
The Reading Room Festival returns for its third year, sharing staged readings, panel discussions, workshops, and community celebrations. This festival unites artists, critics, and scholars ...
The Love Birds
2/14 - 2/16/2025
Geoffrey Chaucer’s charming and trenchant "A Parlement of Foules" contains the first reference to St. Valentine as patron saint of lovers. The 14th-century poet’s vision ...
The Love Birds: Chaucer’s A Parlement of Foules
2/14 - 2/16/2025
Geoffrey Chaucer’s charming and trenchant A Parlement of Foules contains the first reference to St. Valentine as patron saint of lovers. The 14th-century poet’s vision ...
A Room in the Castle
3/4 - 4/6/2025
How does a woman survive the court of Denmark? A Room in the Castle finds Ophelia, her handmaid, and her Queen Gertrude on the other ...
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by A.A. Cristi - January 16, 2025
Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to celebrate music, love, and poetry with four concerts of The Love Birds: Chaucer's A Parlement of Foules....
Review: ROMEO AND JULIET at Folger Theatre
by Peter Rouleau - October 09, 2024
A modern spin on an evergreen tragedy, with mixed results. Read our critic's take.
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Interview: Theatre Life with Alina Collins Maldonado
by Elliot Lanes - October 08, 2024
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by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 11, 2024
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Review: METAMORPHOSES at Folger Theatre
by Jake Bridges - May 14, 2024
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by A.A. Cristi - May 10, 2024
Folger Theatre concludes its homecoming season with Mary Zimmerman’s Tony Award®-winning play, Metamorphoses. See photos from the show.
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METAMORPHOSES Comes to Folger Theatre Next Month
by Stephi Wild - April 10, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Reveals 2024-25 Season Featuring ROMEO AND JULIET & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 28, 2024
The Folger Shakespeare Library has revealed its 2024-2025 Season theme of Whose Democracy? See the season and learn how to purchase tickets....
Arts on the Horizon to Present World Premiere of OFF THE PAGE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 04, 2024
Arts on the Horizon, a non-verbal theatre company whose programs are specifically designed for children ages 0 to 6, will present Off the Page, a world premiere play, as part of its 2023-24 season. Learn more about the show!...
Review: WHERE WE BELONG at Folger Theatre
by Rachael F. Goldberg - February 23, 2024
'Where We Belong' is a beautiful production, with a gorgeous script and an entrancing quality that can be attributed to the best of theatrical experiences. It shares some hard truths, some heart-wrenching moments and realizations, and challenges perspectives, but the love and care that shines throug...
Past Shows
Metamorphoses
5/7 - 5/26/2024
Ovid’s classic stories of the loves, losses, and transformations of gods and mortals are reimagined for the 21st century in Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation. Juxtaposing the ...
Where We Belong
2/15 - 3/17/2024
Where We Belong returns to D.C. after a national tour! In 2015, a Mohegan theatre-maker moves to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare, grappling ...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
1/14 - 3/1/2020
Folger Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor...
Amadeus
11/5 - 12/22/2019
In the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus ...
Henry IV, Part 1
9/3 - 10/13/2019
William Shakespeare; music: Palmer Hefferan; dir: Rosa Joshi....
1 Henry IV
9/3
The reign of King Henry the Fourth (who usurped Richard the Second) is threatened by disgruntled noblemen who feel he is treating them unfairly. The ...
Love's Labor's Lost
4/30 - 6/9/2019
Folger Theatre: William Shakespeare; dir: Vivienne Benesch....
Nell Gwynn
1/29 - 3/10/2019
Charting the rise of an unlikely theatrical heroine from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her success as Britain’s most celebrated actress and mistress ...
King John
10/23 - 12/2/2018
Shakespeare set King John in the early 13th century and compresses John's 17-year reign into a succession of tyrannical, bloody moments that begin with King ...
The Winter's Tale
3/13 - 4/22/2018
Suspicious that his wife Hermione has been unfaithful, King Leontes of Sicilia imprisons the queen, orders the death of her suspected lover, and banishes his ...
The Way of the World
1/9 - 2/11/2018
Theresa Rebeck; dir: Theresa Rebeck....
Antony and Cleopatra
10/10 - 11/19/2017
Antony and Cleopatra is a love story with the power to shatter nations. (Sound hyperbolic? Trust us, it’s not.) But reality has a way of ...
Timon of Athens
5/9 - 6/11/2017
In a high-risk world of quick profits and borrowed luxury, Timon is a financial god among men. But when the tides of monetary fortune turn, ...
As You Like It
1/24 - 3/5/2017
An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...
The Second Shepherds' Play
11/27 - 12/18/2016
adapt: Mary Hall Surface; dir: Mary Hall Surface....
The Second Shepherds' Play
11/27 - 12/18/2016
adapt: Mary Hall Surface; dir: Mary Hall Surface....
Sense and Sensibility
9/13 - 10/30/2016
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...
Sense and Sensibility
9/13 - 10/30/2016
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jon Jory, adapted from the novel by Jane Austen (February 17 – March 18, 2012) Fortune lost to fate. Romance lost ...
District Merchants
5/31 - 7/3/2016
adapt: Aaron Posner from Aaron Posner; dir: Michael John Garces....
William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
4/21 - 5/8/2016
Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor; dir: Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor....
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1/26 - 3/6/2016
William Shakespeare; dir: Aaron Posner....
Pericles
11/13 - 12/20/2015
Sailors and pirates, nuns and hookers, innocent virgins and evil kings--seven actors play forty roles in Shakespeare's adventure tale about a shattered family trying to ...
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR
9/19 - 10/4/2015
Karin Coonrod; dir: Karin Coonrod. World Premiere...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
5/12 - 6/21/2015
Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of ...
Mary Stuart
1/27 - 3/8/2015
adapt: Peter Oswald from Friedrich Schiller; dir: Richard Clifford....
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
4/17 - 5/25/2014
Possibly Shakespeare’s earliest romantic comedy, The Two Gentlemen of Verona centers on Valentine and Proteus, loyal friends who are transformed into enemies thanks to their ...
Richard III
1/28 - 3/9/2014
Folger Theatre: William Shakespeare; dir: Robert Richmond....
Romeo and Juliet
10/15 - 12/1/2013
Folger Theatre: William Shakespeare; music: Carla Kihlstedt; dir: Aaron Posner....
Twelfth Night
4/30 - 6/9/2013
Folger Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: Robert Richmond....
Henry V
1/22 - 3/3/2013
Folger Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: Robert Richmond....
The Taming of the Shrew
5/1 - 6/10/2012
The Gaming Table
1/24 - 3/4/2012
Othello
10/18 - 11/27/2011
Videos
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Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 6/1) | |
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Out of Character
Theater J (1/8 - 1/26) | |
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Native Gardens
NextStop Theatre (1/23 - 2/16) | |
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Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood
Imagination Stage (12/11 - 2/8) | |
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Broadway en Spanglish
Sixth & I (2/1 - 2/1) | |
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The Reading Room Festival
Folger Theatre (1/30 - 2/2) | |
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Versa-Style Street Dance Company: Rooted Rhythms
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (2/15 - 2/15) | |
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Duel Reality
Harman Hall - Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/1 - 7/20) | |
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A Wrinkle in Time
Arena Stage (6/12 - 7/20) | |
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König der Löwen - Live in Concert
Theater am Potsdamer Platz (3/8 - 3/8) | |
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Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Dances for the Ears
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (1/26 - 1/26) | |
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