Skip to main content
The Folger Spotlight

The Folger Spotlight

What’s On at the Folger

Pericles Cast
Folger Spotlight

Pericles Cast

Posted
Author
Folger Theatre
Pericles: A Modern Perspective
Folger Spotlight

Pericles: A Modern Perspective

Posted
Author
Margaret Jane Kidnie

Marina Singing Before Pericles, 1825. Pericles is a play haunted by loss. Sometimes loss is figured as a sudden and calamitous separation from one’s friends and belongings, as when Pericles at the top of the second act is washed ashore…

Pericles Director’s Notes
Folger Spotlight

Pericles Director’s Notes

Posted
Author
Joseph Haj

Pericles Director Joseph Haj Pericles was wildly popular during Shakespeare’s lifetime and in the decades following; indeed, it was among his most popular works. It was the play that reopened the London Globe Theatre in 1631 after it was shuttered…

Pericles Dramaturg’s Notes
Folger Spotlight

Pericles Dramaturg’s Notes

Posted
Author
Michele Osherow

Folger Resident Dramaturg, Michele Osherow Pericles, Prince of Tyre is unusual among Shakespeare’s plays. The hero travels Odysseus-like from place to place on a fantastical quest to showcase honor, announce virtue, and dodge the fury of a perverse king. Pericles…

Pericles Production Photos
Folger Spotlight

Pericles Production Photos

Posted
Author
Folger Theatre

Images from Pericles at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
Folger Spotlight

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606

Posted
Author
Katharine Pitt

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 Author James Shapiro’s new book The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 considers the period when the playwright wrote three of his greatest tragedies, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Dr. Shapiro…

texts&beheadings/Elizabeth R Production Photos
Folger Spotlight

texts&beheadings/Elizabeth R Production Photos

Posted
Author
Folger Theatre
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR: Elizabeth on Stage
Folger Spotlight

texts&beheadings/ElizabethR: Elizabeth on Stage

Posted
Author
Katharine Pitt

Queen Elizabeth has a long history of appearing on stage at the Folger. She was recently played by Holly Twyford in last season’s Mary Stuart, by Michael Learned in 2003’s Elizabeth the Queen, and by an un-credited baby doll in the last moments…

Introducing texts&beheadings:ElizabethR
Folger Spotlight

Introducing texts&beheadings:ElizabethR

Posted
Author
Katharine Pitt

The 2015/16 season at Folger Theatre kicks off with a special engagement of texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, which heads into rehearsal next week and we’re delighted to have the opportunity to host the world premiere of this new American play (we have more than one this…

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale
Folger Spotlight

Louis Butelli: Introducing Gravedigger’s Tale

Posted
Author
Louis Butelli

Louis Butelli Hello, dear readers of the Folger Production Diary! This is your friend Louis Butelli writing you once again. How’ve you been? The reason for this entry is to proudly announce a brand new collaboration between myself, director Robert…

Ian Merrill Peakes: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
Folger Spotlight

Ian Merrill Peakes: Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Posted
Author
Ian Merrill Peakes

Ian Merrill Peakes Actor Ian Merrill Peakes (The Player) shares his final thoughts about the Folger Theatre production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.  Learn more about Ian at the Folger and read his previous posts.  We close Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead this…

Dramaturg's Notes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Folger Spotlight

Dramaturg's Notes: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Posted
Author
Michele Osherow

Folger Dramaturg Michele Osherow. Michele Osherow is the Folger Theatre’s Resident Dramaturg and has worked on over twenty productions here. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her notes on the Folger’s production of…

1 25 26 27 28 29 40