Folger Shakespeare Library Expands Celebration of Shakespeare’s Birthday with Staged Reading of Macbeth and a Variety of Events in late April The family-friendly Birthday Festival will return on April 18 and the Folger’s inaugural Director’s Resident Adjoa Andoh MBE will direct and star in the Macbeth Staged Reading WASHINGTON, March 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Folger Shakespeare Library is expanding the scope of its annual celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday with new installations in its exhibition halls, performances, lectures, and a family-friendly birthday party. The April line up of programming will also include a staged reading of Macbeth directed by and starring Adjoa Andoh MBE as a part of […]

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Happy Bday Will!
409 is a hell of an age! 😅
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Shakespeare's First Theatre: A Timeline - Yale University Press London In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London’s first purpose-built commercial playhouse. A place of high culture and quick

Built in 1576 in a field in Shoreditch, the Theatre was London's first purpose-built playhouse and #Shakespeare's first theatre.

This timeline, from Daniel Swift’s book The Dream Factory charts the Theatre’s history:
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Statue of William Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, England against a cloudy sky.

To read or not to read… old handwriting? 📜 Deciphering ancestral documents can be tricky! What’s the hardest historical handwriting you’ve had to read? #ShakespeareBirthday #GenealogyChallenges

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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come” The Merchant of Venice #ShakespeareBirthday

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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🎭🎂🏛️ Huge thanks to the brilliant @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for Team Shakespeare this afternoon! An afternoon of insight! Plus traditional #bathshakespearesociety cake: this year -a mini Globe! 🍰👏

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