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Folger Shakespeare Library’s "DC, I Love You" Brings Real Love Stories to Life in the District Neighborhoods of Mount Pleasant and Capitol Hill
Folger Shakespeare Library today announced that tickets are now available for DC, I Love You, a community-driven, site-specific performance set against the backdrop of Washington, DC’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood and throughout the public spaces of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Q&A with Twelfth Night director Mei Ann Teo
Director Mei Ann Teo shares the vision for Folger Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night. Shakespearean original practice, the soulful pop of local icon composer Be Steadwell, and an ensemble proposition all inform a production that Teo describes as “hilarious, sexy, and devastating.”
Play on!: An interview with "Twelfth Night" composer Be Steadwell
Folger Theatre’s Twelfth Night begins performances May 13. Composer Be Steadwell shares how The Cure, Elizabethan traditional ballads, the underground club scene in Berlin, and queer ball culture all inspire the songs for this production.
Folger Theatre Closes Its 2024-25 Season with a Sexy, Joyful Twelfth Night Directed by Mei Ann Teo
Press release: April 10, 2025
Folger Theatre Announces Upcoming 2025-26 Season of Plays
Press release: April 8, 2025
The Hamlet variations
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is having a moment—actually two, with A Room in the Castle and The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel) exploring Shakespeare’s characters before, during, and after the events of his greatest tragedy.
Folger Theatre Presents the World Premiere of Lauren M. Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle
Press release: January 28, 2025
Folger Theatre Announces Lineup of Events for Third Annual Reading Room Festival
Press release: January 9, 2025
Folger Theatre Announces Plays and Playwrights for Third Annual Reading Room Festival, a Four-Day Celebration of Staged Readings in Conversation with Shakespeare
Press release: December 5, 2024
Staging Puerto Rican Culture: Speaking Spanish and English in Romeo and Juliet
Carla Della Gatta explores how bilingual staging methods help evoke Puerto Rican culture for the Capulet women in Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet.
Director's cut: Exhibits inspired by "Romeo and Juliet"
Selected by director Raymond O. Caldwell and the Folger staff, with evocative descriptions by Caldwell, rare objects resonate with the themes of Romeo and Juliet.
AI and iambic pentameter: Making political speeches in the metaverse
Melanie Bender Martin explores how the Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, set in a DC metaverse, was equipped with political ads… in iambic pentameter.