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Q&A stands for a Q&A or question and answer session with one or more people
A Trifecta of Love for Faith, Community, and Brotherhood
Folger Spotlight

A Trifecta of Love for Faith, Community, and Brotherhood

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Director Nicole Brewer shares a first look at Julius X, which opens the Folger Theatre 2025-2026 season in September.

Henry V, Tupac, and the Power of Verse
Folger Spotlight

Henry V, Tupac, and the Power of Verse

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Playwright and Broadway star Jacob Ming-Trent discusses How Shakespeare Saved My Life, part of the Folger Theatre 2025-2026 season.

Q&A with Twelfth Night director Mei Ann Teo
Folger Spotlight

Q&A with Twelfth Night director Mei Ann Teo

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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 Spotlight

Play on!: An interview with "Twelfth Night" composer Be Steadwell

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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.

Q&A: John Douglas Thompson on playing Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: John Douglas Thompson on playing Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company

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Esther Ferington

John Douglas Thompson, who is playing the title role in Othello in the Royal Shakespeare Company production, shares his insights about the character and the play.

Q&A: Greg Prickman on Imprints in Time, a dazzling special exhibition
A detailed papyrus artwork featuring two Egyptian figures. On the left is a human figure, while the right figure has a human body with a jackal head. Both are adorned in traditional garments, shown in a sideways profile, engaging with each other.
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: Greg Prickman on Imprints in Time, a dazzling special exhibition

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Esther Ferington

Greg Prickman discusses Imprints in Time, the first special exhibition in the new space, including Tolkien’s edits and an ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Q&A: Peggy O’Brien on a fantastical Shakespeare map
Peggy O'Brien, wearing the
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: Peggy O’Brien on a fantastical Shakespeare map

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Esther Ferington

Peggy O’Brien helps us explore a giant, richly detailed fictional map filled with Shakespeare’s characters, newly created for the Folger’s exhibition spaces.

Michael Witmore on serving as director and the renovation
Shakespeare and Beyond

Michael Witmore on serving as director and the renovation

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Esther Ferington

Michael Witmore talks about his experiences as Folger director and the recent Folger grand reopening.

Q&A: Tamilla Woodard on "The Winter's Tale"
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: Tamilla Woodard on "The Winter's Tale"

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Shakespeare & Beyond

“We are all Leontes.” Director Tamilla Woodard shares her favorite moments from The Winter’s Tale and what audiences should be watching for when they see the play.

Q&A with "Our Verse in Time to Come" director Vernice Miller
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A with "Our Verse in Time to Come" director Vernice Miller

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Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet
Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: Reynaldo Piniella and Emily Lyon on their bilingual Hamlet

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Shakespeare & Beyond

In this bilingual Hamlet, a Black and Latinx prince has his sense of identity fractured by the loss of his Black father.

Q&A: Lolita Chakrabarti - The 'Red Velvet' playwright on 19th-century Black actor Ira Aldridge
Amari Cheatom as Ira Aldridge in Red Velvet
Shakespeare and Beyond

Q&A: Lolita Chakrabarti - The 'Red Velvet' playwright on 19th-century Black actor Ira Aldridge

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Lolita Chakrabarti shares historical context about pioneering 19th-century Black actor Ira Aldridge, the subject of her play Red Velvet, including a notable detail about his funeral in Poland which she learned after she’d written the play.

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