A guest post by Alexander D’Agostino I am an artist working with queer histories and images, through performance and visual art. During my Artist Research Fellowship with the Folger, I am creating The Fairy King’s Grimoire: a reimagining of the…
This is the final week to visit The Playhouse or catch Folger Theatre's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the National Building Museum. But don't worry: there's still lots to do. This week, catch a reading of a new play, join a generative poetry workshop, take a tour of our magical theater, and more.
Photo: Lloyd Wolf There’s always something to do at The Playhouse. This week, join us for a free concert from the Bele Bele Rhythm Collective, learn about the history of potions and cocktails from mixologists and historians, and immerse yourself…
This week at The Playhouse, take an in-depth look at the Folger's renovation with its designers, make your own miniature comic book, and jam out to tunes by Justin Trawick and the Common Good.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Insights from Folger Theatre dramaturg Michele Osherow
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Shakespeare & Beyond
"Nowhere does Shakespeare attend more to theatrical enterprise and potential than in A Midsummer Night's Dream," writes Michele Osherow, Folger Theatre's resident dramaturg. "It makes the play irresistible to those who practice theatre and to those who crave its incomparable pleasures." Read more in this playbill excerpt from Folger Theatre's new production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," onstage through August 28 as part of "The Playhouse" at the National Building Museum.
Stepping into the forest of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream': An immersive installation based on 'A Knavish Lad'
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Esther French
This summer, visitors to The Playhouse at the National Building Museum can enjoy an immersive installation based on a beautiful book in the Folger collection, Joanna Robson’s "A Knavish Lad." The book visually (and wordlessly) narrates "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" in 16 vignettes, four of which are reproduced on a human scale for the installation.
Love-in-idleness, Part Two: Intoxicating botanicals in 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'
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Marissa Nicosia
Love-in-idleness, a flower also called pansy or heartsease, plays an important role in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as Marissa Nicosia explores.
Q&A: Jacob Ming-Trent on Falstaff, Bottom, and Shakespeare’s comedy
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Shakespeare & Beyond
Jacob Ming-Trent shares a favorite moment from his Shakespeare in the Park performance as Falstaff in "Merry Wives," which premieres on PBS's Great Performances May 20.
