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'Timon of Athens' First Rehearsal
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'Timon of Athens' First Rehearsal

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The last production of Folger Theatre’s 25th anniversary season began on Monday with the first rehearsal and read-through of Timon of Athens. What can we expect from this rarely performed play? Let’s take a peek inside the room and see what we…

Gravedigger’s Tale On the Road in Mississippi
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Gravedigger’s Tale On the Road in Mississippi

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Louis Butelli

Actor Louis Butelli is traveling the world in Gravedigger’s Tale as part of the First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare tour. Read an update from his travels below! Hello, friends! It’s your very own Gravedigger, Louis Butelli writing you. I recently…

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale
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Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale

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Louis Butelli

Louis Butelli Hello, dear readers of the Folger Production Diary! This is your friend Louis Butelli writing you once again. How’ve you been? The reason for this entry is to proudly announce a brand new collaboration between myself, director Robert…

Gravedigger's Tale
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Gravedigger's Tale

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Katharine Pitt

Gravedigger’s Tale is going on tour! Learn more and reserve for your organization today!   Gravedigger’s Tale is a new interactive one-man play based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The play, developed by director Robert Richmond (Folger Theatre’s Julius Caesar, Richard III, Henry V and more), features the Gravedigger, who…

Louis Butelli: Julius Caesar, Memory, and John Green
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Louis Butelli: Julius Caesar, Memory, and John Green

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Louis Butelli

Lousi Butelli (left) gets some choreography down in rehearsal with fight director Casey Kaleba, and actor Joe Brack looking on. Photo by Teresa Wood Hi again from your pal Louis Butelli. Here at Folger Theatre, we are coming to the…

Louis Butelli: Julius Caesar Rehearsal Video Clip
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Louis Butelli: Julius Caesar Rehearsal Video Clip

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Louis Butelli

Maurice Jones as Mark Antony. Photo by James Kegley. Hello! It’s your friend Louis Butelli here. I’ll be playing Cassius in Robert Richmond’s upcoming production of Julius Caesar at Folger Theatre. We begin previews on October 28th, and tickets are…

Louis Butelli on Returning to the Folger as Cassius
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Louis Butelli on Returning to the Folger as Cassius

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Louis Butelli

For ever, and for ever farewell, Brutus! / If we do meet again, we’ll smile indeed -Cassius, V.i Hello again from your friend Louis Butelli. I’ll be returning to the Folger Theatre this fall to play Cassius in Robert Richmond’s production of…

Louis Butelli: Ferguson, ISIS, and Caesar
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Louis Butelli: Ferguson, ISIS, and Caesar

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Louis Butelli

Maurice Jones as Mark Antony in Folger’s Julius Caesar. Photo by James Kegley Hello again! Your pal Louis Butelli here with the second in a series of blog posts in advance of Folger Theatre’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.…

Sneak Peek of Jim Hunter's Lighting Design for Julius Caesar
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Sneak Peek of Jim Hunter's Lighting Design for Julius Caesar

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Katharine Pitt

The exhalations whizzing in the air / Give so much light that I may read by them (Julius Caesar, II.i.46-47) Today’s guest post comes from Jim Hunter, the lighting designer for Julius Caesar. Jim is a professor of theatrical design at the University of South…

In the Studio: Recording Julius Caesar
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In the Studio: Recording Julius Caesar

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Katharine Pitt

The very talented Robert Richmond (the upcoming Julius Caesar, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Henry V, and Henry VIII) returned to Omega Studios last week along with a cast of Folger favorites to record Julius Caesar in advance of the production opening in October.…

Drew Cortese: My Favorite Richard III Line
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Drew Cortese: My Favorite Richard III Line

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Drew Cortese

Drew Cortese as King Richard. Photo by Teresa Wood. When I’m not orchestrating the deaths of my friends and relatives on the Folger’s stage in our current production of Richard III, I teach at Avenues: The World School, in New…

Interview with Folger's Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow
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Interview with Folger's Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow

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Folger Theatre’s Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow In case you haven’t heard the exciting news…Richard III has been extended and will now run through March 16 at the Folger Theatre. Audiences and critics have been raving about the show – and there…

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