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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 Folger Shakespeare Library has announced that Aaron T. Pratt will join the Collections and Exhibitions Department as the new Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints. In this role, Pratt ...

Folger Theatre today announced the full season of Shakespeare plays and attached directors to be performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the playwright's American home on Capitol Hill, for the ...

The Bard’s D.C. library is opening its doors to the world once again. The Folger Shakespeare Library, known for having the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, is set to reopen on Nov. 17 after a ...

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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.

Cloudy skies were spitting rain that day in 1918, so Henry and Emily Folger popped up their umbrellas as they set off on a walk from Union Station. The New Yorkers were hunting down a suitable home ...

WASHINGTON — The Folger Shakespeare Library, which houses the world's largest Shakespeare collection, reopened in June following a four-year renovation. The transformation of the library now evokes ...