Shakespeare Everywhere Festival
Washington D.C.
October 7 to December 31, 2023
https://www.shakespeareeverywheredc.com
World-class productions, fascinating debates, amazing opportunities to get behind the scenes, and all on your doorstep. This fall in Washington, Shakespeare will truly be everywhere.
Shakespeare Everywhere is made possible through the generous support of Mrs. Jacqueline B. Mars.
Created by Whitney White
Klein Theatre
October 10–29
Marjorie Garber
"Shakespeare's Timeliness"
Theater J
October 23"Keeping Time: Music, Mood, and Shakespeare’s Duke of Jazz"
True Reformer Building
October 24"Time To Talk About Shakespeare"
The Aspen Institute
October 25"Untimeliness: The Brief Lives—and Long Afterlives—of Romeo and Juliet"
Harman Hall
November 15"End Times: Closure and Disclosure in King Lear"
Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building
November 16
By James Ijames
Mead Theatre
October 25–January 14 (extended)
Music by Duke Ellington (inspired by William Shakespeare), choreography by Silas Farley
Also
Romeo and Juliet "Balcony Pas de Deux," music by Sergei Prokofiev, choreography by Kenneth MacMillan
"The Dream" pas de deux from A Midsummer Night's Dream, music by Felix Mendelssohn, choreography by Frederick Ashton
"when shall we meet again," choreography by Brett Ishida
"Dowland Dances," music by Sting and John Dowland, choreography by Silas Farley
The Warner Theatre
October 26–29
Founder Joy Zinoman and Conservatory faculty
"Teaching Shakespeare: Why & How?"
October 28"Try It in Translation"
November 18
By Langston Hughes
Ira Aldridge Theater
November 2–5*Shakespeareances.com was attending the Blackfriars Conference in Staunton, Virginia,
throughout the run of this show.
Music by Charles Gounod, Libretto by Juiles Barber and Miachael Carré after William Shakespeare's play
The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Opera House
November 4–18
By William Shakespeare
Folger Library
November 5–December 17
William Shakespeare-inspired music by Charles Gounod, Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten, Giusseppe Verdi, Ambroise Thomas, Valery Gavrilin, Stephen Sondheim
Coolidge Auditorium
November 9
William Shakespeare's King Lear and Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem
Source Theatre
November 18–December 10Baltimore Theatre Project, Baltimore, Maryland
December 15–17
National Gallery of Art Library: East Building, Ground Floor
November 27–December 29
Curator discussions December 1, 8 15, 29
Ensemble of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Black, Indigenous, and Other People of Color Individuals
Atlas Performing Arts Center
November 29–December 17
Hour-long versions of William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline
Harman Hall Forum
December 1–2
By William Shakespeare
Harman Hall
December 2–January 14
The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Theater Lab
December 4–23
The Negro Classical Cultural Carnival and Shakespeare Theatre Company
The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Millenneum Stage
December 6
Michael Witmore leads panel discussion.
Folger Shakespeare Library
December 9,
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December 9