It’s the final week of our month-long Searching for Shakespeare festival, a citywide celebration of Shakespeare and the 400th anniversary of the printing of the First Folio. That means there’s still a little time to explore our exhibition (featuring a First Folio!) at DC Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, catch Folger Theatre’s world-premiere of Our Verse in Time to Come, and set out on our citywide scavenger hunt.
This week, Our Verse in Time to Come heads to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for its final six performances. We’re celebrating Shakespeare’s birthday with a special gift to you: save 20% on tickets to performances at Woolly by using the code SHXBDAY (valid through Monday, April 24).
Monday, April 24
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Without Shakespeare’s First Folio, eighteen of his plays might have been lost. Solve puzzles and hunt for clues at library locations across town to find all eighteen.
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Come see a First Folio—the book that gave us Shakespeare—and explore how some stories are preserved while others are lost. Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400 connects Shakespeare’s friends’ efforts to preserve his work with today’s efforts to preserve stories of D.C.’s go-go and punk scenes.
Exhibition and the First Folio are located in different spaces of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. See First Folio hours.
A special dispatch from the…
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
📯 In all eight wards, the hunters’ horns resound.
They’ll search until the eighteen plays are found! 🔎
Pieces of the First Folio are hidden throughout DC, and you’re invited to help us find 18 missing plays, from Macbeth to The Comedy of Errors. Sign up to claim your fun Shakespearean name, and tell your family and friends with hashtag #FolgerHunt.
Players Casca the Content Person and Grumio the Narrow Conjurer are at the top of our leaderboard as of this dispatch; meanwhile, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library is 37% of the way to being unlocked and all nine of our library locations have hit double-digit percentages! Over 75 players have contributed so far, but we’ll need more than that to reach 100% as a community and unlock fun prizes.
Tuesday, April 25
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
By Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels, in collaboration with Devin E. Haqq | Directed by Vernice Miller
Performance | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 7 pm | $25, $20 for Folger members and subscribers
Folger Theatre’s world-premiere play, by Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels, in collaboration with Devin E. Haqq, kicks off a week of performances at DC Public Library’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. An aging emcee, affectionately known as SOS, gets out of prison after 25 years only to be diagnosed with early onset dementia. Realizing it’s his last chance to reconnect with his children, he engages an old family friend and legal ally to arrange his estate and ensure his now grown twins, Vi and Will, accept it before his memory slips away for good. Told through music, hip-hop, and Shakespeare, and featuring DJ Nick the 1da.
Wednesday, April 26
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
Performance | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 7 pm
This performance features open captioning.
Thursday, April 27
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 9 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
Performance | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 7 pm | $25, $20 for Folger members and subscribers
Q&A: Director Vernice Miller on Our Verse in Time to Come
Our Verse in Time to Come’s director recalls her transformative early experiences with Shakespeare.
Q&A: Malik Work and Karen Ann Daniels on Our Verse in Time to Come
The playwrights behind Folger Theatre’s world-premiere touring production reflect on the play’s development.
Friday, April 28
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
Performance | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 7 pm | $25, $20 for Folger members and subscribers
Saturday, April 29
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
Performance | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, noon | $25, $20 for Folger members and subscribers
Sunday, April 30
Searching for Shakespeare Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt | DC Public Library locations and Little Free Libraries in all 8 wards
Pass the Story On: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
Exhibition | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 1 pm – 5 pm
Our Verse in Time to Come
Performance | Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 2 pm and 7 pm | $25, $20 for Folger members and subscribers
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