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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Adjoa Andoh, the inaugural Director's Resident at the Folger Shakespeare Library, about Shakespeare's relevance in modern times, and specifically to people of color.

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 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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library is celebrating Shakespeare-and the 400th anniversary of the printing of the First Folio-the entire month of April 2023, with Searching for Shakespeare: Celebrating 400 ...

The acclaimed actor, writer, and director will spend a week in Washington, DC engaging with the community and utilizing the Folger's collection WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Folger ...

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.