Booking and details
Dates & TicketsDates June 14 – Jun 22, 2025
Venue Folger Shakespeare Library
Tickets Individual tickets $30 | Bring a date (or friend) for $50
DC, I Love You in an immersive experience that centers real love stories from the community, bringing them to life in the neighborhoods where they took place. We’re turning everyday Washington, DC, locations into a stage.
Ready or Not at the Folger
Audiences will begin their journey at the Folger’s Haskell Center, where they’ll be greeted by artists and led on a guided tour through a series of surprising, poignant, and playful scenes. Each moment unfolds in a unique spot around the historic Folger Shakespeare Library—turning hidden nooks and iconic spaces into stages for love in all its messy glory.
A walking rom-com adventure
These performances are rain or shine. Before the event, you’ll receive detailed instructions about the starting point. When you arrive, you’ll meet your tour guide and watch the first scene, then walk together to the next location.
Meet the creator
Katherine Harroff
Katherine Harroff is a playwright, producer, director, and actor and Artist-in-Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library where she also serves as the Director of Engagement. She is the former Associate Director of Arts Engagement at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Ms. Harroff has pioneered documentarian and community-based performance, developing stories, teaching everyday artists, and sharing the tools of storytelling and professional theater with myriad communities. In addition to documentary theater, her work has included installation experiences, site-specific performances, as well as intimate and large-scale community focused events celebrating the stories, lives, traditions, and interests of the community she is engaged in.
About DC, I Love You
DC, I Love You is the second part of the three-part DC Amplified project, which seeks to gather and uplift community stories within Washington, DC. In this phase, audience members are invited to enjoy an original performance experience where short plays inspired by real love stories are staged throughout the community businesses and neighborhoods where the events would actually take place. Audiences will be led to different locations in a block radius where each new location will reveal another scene in the journey of the play. Discover love, art, and community in a way that’s uniquely DC.
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