Staging Shakespeare

This month, Shakespeare theaters across the country are bringing live theater back! Take a look at what the Folger’s theater partners have onstage this month, along with virtual talks, online streaming shows, and audio productions.

In June, Ian McKellen will take the stage as the title character in Hamlet at the Theatre Royal Windsor. McKellen is no stranger to the role: he played Hamlet in Prospect Theatre Company’s touring production a half century ago. It…

Check out awesome performances and programs from Shakespeare theaters across the United States this month.

Find out how Shakespeare theaters across the United States are celebrating the Bard’s birthday this year.

There are lots of places to watch and listen to Shakespeare online this March, especially for fans of “Julius Caesar” and “Hamlet.”

Victorian director Henry Irving’s use of a Black page in his production of ‘The Merchant of Venice’ shows how forms of race-thinking had been sustained and intensified in the English theatrical imagination.

Check out innovative online plays and programs in February from the members of the Folger’s Shakespeare Theater Partnership Program.

From new podcasts to online events, theater companies are creating great new ways to engage with Shakespeare and other amazing writers.

We asked some of our Shakespeare theater partners what the events of 2020 had illuminated for them about Shakespeare and theater.

Shakespeare companies have lots of creative programs happening this month both online and in-person. Here’s what the Folger’s theater partners are up to this November.

There are a ton of places to watch Shakespeare in October, both online and in-person. Here’s what the Folger’s theater partners are up to this month.

Shakespeare’s witches haven’t always terrified audiences. For a century and more – from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries – actors played these parts for laughs. During the period in which Shakespeare became “the Bard”, the witches in…