The Folger Shakespeare Library is expanding the scope of its annual celebration of Shakespeare's birthday with new ...

This video is no longer available. The newly renovated Folger Shakespeare Library will host a ribbon cutting this Friday near Capitol Hill. WTOP got a special sneak peek of the new digs that were ...

Folger Theatre today announced its 2026-27 season with three titles by the best-known playwright in the English language, William Shakespeare, to be performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library, his ...

“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 ...

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.” ...

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 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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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 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 ...