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Renovation updates
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Folger Shakespeare Library Reopens after Major Four Year Renovation
Press release: June 21, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Rare Book Collection of Stuart and Mimi Rose in New Special Exhibitions Gallery
Press release: June 13, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Releases Timed-Entry Passes in Advance of June 21 Grand Reopening
Press release: May 21, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces ‘Quill & Crumb’ Wins Café Naming Contest
Press release: March 14, 2024
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Folger to Open New Galleries, Café, and Shop on June 21
Press release: January 30, 2024
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Folger Presents Newly Commissioned Light and Paper Sculpture
Press release: October 5, 2023
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Folger extends renovation timeline to 2024
Press release: August 9, 2023
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Folger announces November 17 reopening
Press release: April 26, 2023
Folger staff news
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Folger Shakespeare Library Names Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper as Director
Press release: May 20, 2024
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Glenda Noel-Ney Named Director of Development
Press release: August 17, 2023
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Melanie Bender Martin Named Folger’s Director of Communications and Marketing
Press release: June 15, 2023
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Scholar Patricia Akhimie named Director of the Folger Institute
Press release: November 17, 2022
Folger Theatre
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Folger Theatre presents Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, bringing Ovid’s classic tales of gods and mortals to life
Press release: April 9, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 2024-25 Season, Bridging Exhibitions and Programming Under Theme Whose Democracy?
Press release: March 28, 2024
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Folger Theatre presents acclaimed solo show "Where We Belong"
Press release: January 23, 2024
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Folger Theatre announces artists and full program lineup for the second year of The Reading Room Festival
Press release: January 12, 2024
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Folger Theatre to expand the second year of The Reading Room Festival
Press release: December 7, 2023
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Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale opens Folger Theatre’s homecoming season
Press release: September 26, 2023
Folger Consort
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces a Diverse Line-Up of Free Summer Programming and Events
Press release: June 27, 2024
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2024–25 Season of the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Press release: June 10, 2024
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Folger Consort Announces 2024-25 Season, Featuring Four Concerts That Explore the Dynamics of Politics Between the 14th and 17th Centuries
Press release: May 1, 2024
Folger Poetry
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Natasha Trethewey is the 2024 Eudora Welty Lecturer
Press release: February 21, 2024
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Jorie Graham opens 2023/24 season of Folger Poetry
Press release: September 12, 2023
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2024: Press releases
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces a Diverse Line-Up of Free Summer Programming and Events
Press release: June 27, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Reopens after Major Four Year Renovation
Press release: June 21, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Presents Rare Book Collection of Stuart and Mimi Rose in New Special Exhibitions Gallery
Press release: June 13, 2024
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2024–25 Season of the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Press release: June 10, 2024
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Folger Shakespeare Library Releases Timed-Entry Passes in Advance of June 21 Grand Reopening
Press release: May 21, 2024
2023: Press releases
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Folger Theatre to expand the second year of The Reading Room Festival
Press release: December 7, 2023
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Folger Consort presents annual holiday concert "A Baroque Christmas Story"
Press release: November 9, 2023
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Folger Presents Newly Commissioned Light and Paper Sculpture
Press release: October 5, 2023
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Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale opens Folger Theatre’s homecoming season
Press release: September 26, 2023
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Jorie Graham opens 2023/24 season of Folger Poetry
Press release: September 12, 2023
2022: Press releases
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Scholar Patricia Akhimie named Director of the Folger Institute
Press release: November 17, 2022