Folger Theatre
The Hamlet variations
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is having a moment—actually two, with A Room in the Castle and The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel) exploring Shakespeare’s characters before, during, and after the events of his greatest tragedy.
Folger Theatre Presents the World Premiere of Lauren M. Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle
Press release: January 28, 2025
Folger Theatre Announces Lineup of Events for Third Annual Reading Room Festival
Press release: January 9, 2025
Folger Theatre Announces Plays and Playwrights for Third Annual Reading Room Festival, a Four-Day Celebration of Staged Readings in Conversation with Shakespeare
Press release: December 5, 2024
Staging Puerto Rican Culture: Speaking Spanish and English in Romeo and Juliet
Carla Della Gatta explores how bilingual staging methods help evoke Puerto Rican culture for the Capulet women in Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet.
Director's cut: Exhibits inspired by "Romeo and Juliet"
Selected by director Raymond O. Caldwell and the Folger staff, with evocative descriptions by Caldwell, rare objects resonate with the themes of Romeo and Juliet.
AI and iambic pentameter: Making political speeches in the metaverse
Melanie Bender Martin explores how the Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, set in a DC metaverse, was equipped with political ads… in iambic pentameter.
Q&A with director Raymond O. Caldwell on Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare and AI, and his “love letter to DC”
In a Q&A, director Raymond O. Caldwell explores divisive politics, youth-related issues, and how Folger Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet is a “love letter to DC.”
Folger Theatre opens its 2024-25 season with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Press release: September 5, 2024
“Without much shame retold”: Shakespeare’s sources transformed
Austin Tichenor on how Shakespeare drew from the classics, history texts, folk tales, contemporary politics, and more.
“The Problem of the Theatre”
A brief history of Folger Theatre.
Dramaturg's Notes: Faedra Chatard Carpenter on Metamorphoses
Faedra Chatard Carpenter writes about the persistent power of myth in our lives and how this production makes a notable change to the play’s conventional staging.