The permanent exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates the playwright with its world-class collection of First ...

Why are the plays of William Shakespeare still so popular 400 years after his death? "Sunday Morning" talks with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and actor Patrick Page about the Bard's ...

In this reimagined version of "Hamlet" playing at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., the story is told from the viewpoint of the women of the play.(Credit Folger Shakespeare Theatre) When you ...

With A Room in the Castle, Folger Theatre co-launches an admirable but uneven Shakespearean riff on Hamlet’s women.

What is it about William Shakespeare that makes people so eager to mess about with him? Never content merely to reduce, revise or reboot, directors insist on dressing his dramas up in garish period ...

Now premiering at Folger Theatre, A Room in the Castle focuses on the women: “The most brazen part of this whole play is I actually don’t give a shit about Hamlet.” Last year, Gunderson ...

Opening next month at the Folger Theatre is Lauren M. Gunderson’s “A Room in the Castle,” which reimagines “Hamlet” from the viewpoints of Ophelia and Gertrude, plus a newly conceived ...

Sabrina Lynne Sawyer, Burgess Byrd, Oneika Phillips in the world premiere of “A Room in the Castle” based on the women of “Hamlet,” by Lauren M. Gunderson, directed by Kaja Dunn, co-produced with ...

We took a tour of the re-imagined Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. With the largest collection of Shakespeare works in the world, it opened June 21 after a four-year, $80.5 million ...

Washington, DC's Folger Museum is trying to embed race- and identity-based ideologies into their mission of promoting the Bard. Getty Images Shakespeare is the great wordsmith of the English ...