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Recent press releases

Folger Theatre to expand the second year of The Reading Room Festival
Press release: December 7, 2023

Folger Consort presents annual holiday concert "A Baroque Christmas Story"
Press release: November 9, 2023

Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Newly Commissioned Light and Paper Sculpture ‘Cloud of Imagination’ by German Artist Anke Neumann
Press release: October 5, 2023

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale opens Folger Theatre’s homecoming season
Press release: September 26, 2023

Jorie Graham opens 2023/24 season of Folger Poetry
Press release: September 12, 2023

Glenda Noel-Ney Named Director of Development
Press release: August 17, 2023

Folger extends renovation timeline to 2024
Press release: August 9, 2023

Melanie Bender Martin Named Folger’s Director of Communications and Marketing
Press release: June 15, 2023

Folger announces 2023/24 Seasons of Theater, Music, & Poetry
Press release: May 4, 2023

Folger announces November 17 reopening
Press release: April 26, 2023

Folger Shakespeare Library presents Searching for Shakespeare
Press release: March 1, 2023

Scholar Patricia Akhimie named Director of the Folger Institute
Press release: November 17, 2022