The Capitol Hill landmark closed to the public in March of 2020, just before COVID caused everything else to close as well. But the $80.5 million renovation designed by the Philadelphia-based ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library on D.C.’s Capitol Hill estimates it will remain closed into 2024 due to ongoing renovations, after originally planning to reopen in November. In a news release Wednesday ...

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler has ...

“Clear your calendars. Pocket your notes”: So begins a Rita Dove poem beside a new garden path that leads visitors away from the official world of Capitol Hill and into the soon-to-reopen Folger ...

The acclaimed actor, writer, and director will spend a week in Washington, DC engaging with the community and utilizing the Folger's collection WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Folger ...

This video is no longer available. The newly renovated Folger Shakespeare Library will host a ribbon cutting this Friday near Capitol Hill. WTOP got a special sneak peek of the new digs that were ...

“This printing press,” says Greg Prickman of the Folger Shakespeare Library. “We had it built for the space, so it’s not an artifact. People can handle it, and it helps us tell the story of the book.” ...

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a production at ...

Holiday decor, festive musical performances, family-friendly and Shakespeare-themed activities, and special celebrations for Jane Austen's 250th birthday are all a part of this year's festival ...

Folger Shakespeare Library will reopen on November 17 after a three-year renovation. New additions include two exhibition halls, the institution’s first permanent Shakespeare display, a cafe, public ...

April 23 marks what many believe to be both the birth, in 1564, and death, in 1616, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, of William Shakespeare, widely considered to be the world’s greatest playwright.

Cloudy skies were spitting rain that day in 1918, so Henry and Emily Folger popped up their umbrellas as they set off on a walk from Union Station. The New Yorkers were hunting down a suitable home ...