Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of archivists like the threat of fire (well, perhaps fear of flooding is up there as well).

So it’s safe to say a few nerves were frazzled with the news that a small fire broke out in the Folger Shakespeare Library, as we briefly noted on Monday. An electrician discovered the fire in a costume storage area in the building’s theater.

Thankfully, the fire was confined to a small area and none of the Folger’s rare artifacts were harmed. NBC attributed the fire to a faulty spotlight.

Unfortunately, there still needs to be clean-up and assessment of water damage in the area, so the company’s anticipated production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be bumped until Oct. 24, and the library’s current exhibition, Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print, has been moved elsewhere and will re-open next week.

Midsummer isn’t the first production to be plagued by a theater fire recently. Landless Theatre Company’s production of Cannibal the Musical! was bumped from DCAC after a fire damaged that venue. We’re glad the shows have been able to continue despite the issues — let’s just hope D.C. theatre fires don’t come in threes. DCist has three productions to see this week and doesn’t want to have to do any evacuating.