Voces y Votos
With apt new comedies programmed around election seasons, theatre companies have been complicating audience notions of the Latine vote and community.
All Stories About Folger Theatre
The Enduring, Overlooked Wisdom of ‘Nathan the Wise’
Far from simply preaching tolerance among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, this 18th-century comic fable insists on true inclusion and fellowship.
The Folger’s Karen Ann Daniels: Making the Shakespeare We Want
As she steps into a new role at D.C.’s Folger Theatre and Library, she’s focused on how a repurposed Bard can help build community.
Karen Ann Daniels Named Folger Theatre Artistic Director
Daniels will join the Folger in October, after leading the Public Theater’s Mobile Unit.
Folger Theatre Announces 2017-18 Season
The four-show slate will feature the Bard, Shaw from NYC’s Bedlam, and a Theresa Rebeck comedy.
Notes on Shakespeare 400: Too Much of a Bard Thing
Barbara Gaines’s Chicago Shakespeare Theater staged an ambitious yearlong program in 2016. I tried to match that ambition as an attendee, with mixed success.
Aaron Posner’s Many Hats
Whether directing, writing, or irreverently adapting, the D.C.-based artist isn’t afraid of bringing himself to all his work.
Dueling-Fairy Fan Fiction From the Reduced Shakespeare Company
Proving that the Bard can be revered with irreverence, Folger Theatre presents a ‘lost’ play that never was.
Folger Theatre Announces 2016–17 Season of Shakespeare and Austen
The season will feature works by the Bard and Jane Austen and will be presented alongside an exhibition highlighting their work.
The Queen’s English: Two New Plays Find Inspiration in Elizabethan Language
Meg Miroshnik’s ‘The Droll’ looks at the theatre of Elizabeth’s time, while Karin Coonrod’s ‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR’ deconstructs her language.
