Esther Ferington

Shakespeare’s works are woven throughout Star Trek, but how do the current shows keep up the link? Explore that connection following the Discovery series finale.

Rita Dove shares the story behind her new poem, which is inscribed in the marble edge around the Folger’s west garden.

A newly built recreation of an early printing press, to be displayed in the Shakespeare Exhibition Hall, shows how the First Folio was created 400 years ago.

A floating paper sculpture by Anke Neumann lights the stairs from the new visitor lobby to the historic theater above.

Gardens, landscaping, Puck, and poetry

A preview of these new spaces

Spotlight on the Adams Pavilion

The architectural vision for the renovation in a conversaton with Director Michael Witmore, architect Stephen Kieran, and landscape architect Anneliza Kaufer.

Marking the anniversary of actor Edwin Booth’s birth on November 13, 1833, we explore a stunning historical costume from the Folger collection: an embroidered-velvet tunic that Booth wore onstage as King Richard III.