Folger Shakespeare Library - Washington DC

The Elizabethan Theatre is the place where Folger Theatre productions, concerts, poetry programs, and student performance festivals take place. With its three wooden balconies, carved oak columns, and half-timbered facade, the Theatre looks like the courtyard of an English Renaissance inn. Overhead, a canopy represents the sky.

In the lobby just outside the Theatre, visitors are greeted near the door by a marble statue of Puck. This is the original statue created for the Folger grounds by Brenda Putnam in 1932 and restored in 2001. Today, an aluminum replica presides over the Folger’s outdoor fountain.