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Garland Scott
Garland Scott
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Peter Eramo
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Press releases
Folger Theatre presents Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, bringing Ovid’s classic tales of gods and mortals to life
Press release: April 9, 2024
Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 2024-25 Season, Bridging Exhibitions and Programming Under Theme Whose Democracy?
Press release: March 28, 2024
Folger Shakespeare Library Announces ‘Quill & Crumb’ Wins Café Naming Contest
Press release: March 14, 2024
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Natasha Trethewey is the 2024 Eudora Welty Lecturer
Press release: February 21, 2024
Folger to Open New Galleries, Café, and Shop on June 21
Press release: January 30, 2024
Folger Theatre presents acclaimed solo show "Where We Belong"
Press release: January 23, 2024
Folger Theatre announces artists and full program lineup for the second year of The Reading Room Festival
Press release: January 12, 2024
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 Presents Newly Commissioned Light and Paper Sculpture
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