The Reading Room Festival 2025
Shakespeare as a Starting Point: Shakespeare with Community | The Reading Room Festival
Shakespeare as a Starting Point: Shakespeare with Community
The annual festival kickoff explores the unexpected ways Shakespeare’s legacy has endured, and how engaging with theater-making enhances the relevance and value of Shakespeare in the everyday lives of people.
Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 6:30pm
Henry 6 | The Reading Room Festival
Henry 6
Artistic Director of San Diego's Old Globe Barry Edelstein shares selections and commentary on the process of creating Henry 6, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely produced Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III.
Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 7:30pm
Writing, Adapting, and Translating Shakespeare for Performance | The Reading Room Festival
Writing, Adapting, and Translating Shakespeare for Performance
A panel of artists explores the challenges and opportunities of turning Shakespeare's beloved 400-year-old texts into compelling contemporary works.
Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 6:45pm
Valor, Agravio y Mujer (The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs) | The Reading Room Festival
Valor, Agravio y Mujer (The Courage to Right a Woman's Wrongs)
This play is a celebration of women’s agency, written by Shakespeare’s Spanish contemporary Ana Caro Mallén de Soto.
Fri, Jan 31, 2025, 8pm
Make Hamlet Your Own: A Rewriting Workshop | The Reading Room Festival
Make Hamlet Your Own: A Rewriting Workshop
Professor Alexa Alice Joubin’s interactive workshop offers participants a hands-on opportunity to rewrite key passages from Shakespeare’s Hamlet from their own cultural perspectives.
Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 11am
DC, I Love You | The Reading Room Festival 2025
DC, I Love You
"DC, I Love You" is an immersive performance experience that brings real love stories to life across the neighborhoods where they originated. This workshop at the Reading Room Festival offers a first look at one of the scripts.
Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 12pm
The Beatrice Project | The Reading Room Festival
The Beatrice Project
At this open rehearsal, Folger Theatre Artistic Director and playwright Karen Ann Daniels invites audiences to walk through the beginning stages of writing her new adaptation with music of Much Ado About Nothing.
Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 4pm
By the Queen | The Reading Room Festival 2025
By the Queen
This dynamic new drama by Whitney White, lifted and remixed from the text of Henry VI and Richard III, finally gives Queen Margaret's story the telling it deserves.
Sat, Feb 01, 2025, 8pm
Translating Shakespeare's English into ASL | The Reading Room Festival
Translating Shakespeare's English into ASL
In this workshop, learn about the challenges and opportunities that occur when translating Shakespeare's works into American Sign Language, with specific examples from Hamlet.
Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 11am
DC New Play Development | The Reading Room Festival
DC New Play Development
A panel considers the opportunities that exist in our city for artists to develop new works. What opportunities can be created if we examine our collective resources as writers, directors, leaders, audiences, and organizations?
Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 12pm
Hamlet: The Reading Room Festival 2025
Hamlet
Hamlet is a Black, Latinx prince in this bilingual reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy, with text infused by the Spanish spoken in present-day New York City.
Sun, Feb 02, 2025, 5pm