The Folger Shakespeare Library named Farah Karim-Cooper as its next director Monday. When she takes up the role in October, she will be the first person of color to lead the institution in its 92 ...

The Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library used to be a dark space, its tall windows covered to prevent damage to the rare books and documents on display there. The Hall, and the adjacent ...

Enter “A Room in the Castle,” currently playing at Folger Theatre in Capitol Hill, which centers the women barely acknowledged in The Bard’s original “Hamlet” and relegates the titular character to an ...

The girl-power premise behind Lauren Gunderson’s A Room in the Castle has good stuff, but is unevenly executed.

Where: Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C. When: March 4-April 6. Info: (202) 544-7077, folger.edu, $20-$84. To say that playwright Sarah Mantell is no fan of ...

an adaptation which still survives today in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. It’s possible that Dering made this adaptation in order to allow a performance of the play at ...

Mr Garrick in the character of Abel Drugger in the Alchymist, by Ben Jonson (c) Folger Shakespeare Library Jackson’s praise of Desdemona’s performance, and the power of her looks as well as ...

Andrea Mays, the author of The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio, has devoted countless hours to researching in the Folger. A protégé of ...