What's on
There’s something for everyone. From theater and music, to poetry and exhibitions, experience the power of the arts with us.
Folger Frost Fair
Fri, Nov 29, 2024 – Sun, Jan 5, 2025
Celebrate the season with a month-long winter festival at the Folger. Enjoy festive decorations, holiday music, free activities, and more.
Upcoming events
Join us for in-person and virtual events; theater, poetry, music, and more.
Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis
Early Music Seminar: A Mass for Christmas Eve
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Folger Book Club: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Gallery Talk: A How-To Guide for Exhibit Design of "Little Books, Big Gifts"
Virtual Folger Salon with Edel Lamb, Dominick Porras, and Susan Valladares
A Mass for Christmas Eve
Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute Reading with Kimiko Hahn
An Hour O’erflow with Joy: Stories of Students and Teachers
Folger Salon with Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva and Ania Upstill
Exhibitions
Explore our world-class collection and enjoy interactive experiences created for visitors of all ages and stages.
- Our Shakespeare Exhibition Hall is devoted to the works of William Shakespeare then and there, here and now — including for the first time a display of all 82 copies of the Folger’s First Folios; and
- In our Stuart and Mimi Rose Rare Book and Manuscript Exhibition Hall, you’ll discover exhibits of significant collection items that inspire the Folger’s work, deep dives into our vault, and special exhibitions.
Current exhibitions
Our Shakespeare Exhibition
Imprints in Time
Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis
Out of the Vault
Talks
Gallery Talk: A How-To Guide for Exhibit Design of "Little Books, Big Gifts"
Virtual Folger Salon with Edel Lamb, Dominick Porras, and Susan Valladares
Folger Salon with Pablo Miguel Sierra Silva and Ania Upstill
Folger Salon with Shaul Bassi, Rob Clines, and Sylvia Korman
Author Talk and Reading: "The Girls of Godzilla, Illinois" with Jami Nakamura Lin
Edmond Dédé and Morgiane
Workshop and Community Read: "Sweet Blood" with Camille Simone Thomas
Folger Salon with Alex Baines and Anandi Rao
Cocktails and Conversation with Luis Carazo
Folger Theatre 2024-2025 Season
Romeo and Juliet
Twelfth Night
A Room in the Castle
For Families
Family Workshop: To Be a Shakespearean Actor
Folger Consort 2024-2025 Season
A Mass for Christmas Eve
The Love Birds
Kings and Commonwealth
Folger Book Club
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Folger Book Club: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
O.B. Hardison Poetry 2024-2025 Season
Disability Poetics with Camisha Jones and torrin a. greathouse
2025 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize with Paul Muldoon and Julia Thacker
The O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Finale Reading Ellen Bass
Subscribe to the 2024-2025 season
Subscriptions are now on sale for the 2024-2025 season, “Whose Democracy?” Explore our subscription packages for Folger Theatre, Folger Consort, and the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series.
Folger Theatre subscriptions
Folger Consort subscriptions
O.B. Hardison Poetry Series subscriptions
Ticket information
Contact the Folger Box Office at (202) 544-7077 or folgerboxoffice@folger.edu.