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The Elizabethan Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library, showing its tiered wooden balconies and half-timbered facade

Folger Shakespeare Library · Capitol Hill

The Elizabethan Theatre

Now showingPermanent collection·Free

An intimate 260-seat playhouse of three-tiered wooden balconies, carved oak columns and a half-timbered facade, modelled on a Renaissance inn courtyard with a painted sky canopy overhead.

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