BST made his list in 2014 ( The Two Noble Kinsmen), 2015 ( Arden of Faversham), 2016 ( Antony and Cleopatra), and 2018 ( Coriolanus). BST was also frequently celebrated by Eric Minton of in his Top 20 lists. As You Like It received a Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress for Rebecca Speas as Celia.

The Trojan Women Project received two Helen Hayes Nominations, for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Supporting Actress for Nicole Ruthmarie as Nefertiti. BST’s 2019 production of As You Like It included an original score of eleven songs by local composer Zach Roberts.īST was honored with the designation Helen Hayes Recommended for productions of Antony and Cleopatra, The Trojan Women Project, and As You Like It.

In 2016, Brave Spirits Theatre brought Middleton and Dekker’s The Bloody Banquet to the Capital Fringe Festival, the first professional production of that play anywhere in the world in 400 years.īST also produced two original works: What, Lamb! What, Ladybird! at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival and The Trojan Women Project as part of the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater Festival. A feminist company dedicated to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, BST’s offerings included five early modern plays professionally produced for the first time in the DC-metropolitan area.

Smith and Victoria Reinsel, Brave Spirits Theatre produced twenty-three plays and provided creative employment for over 300 artists and technicians. Without the ability to plan for future performances, Brave Spirits is unable to recover financially from the loss of Shakespeare’s Histories.Ĭo-founded in 2011 by Charlene V.

When it became clear that, due to the continued spread of the virus, live performances would remain unsafe indefinitely, BST also cancelled the second year of the project. In March, coronavirus forced the closing of the four of those plays that were in performance ( Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth Part 1, Henry the Fourth Part 2, and Henry the Fifth). BST was in the middle of a historic project to stage Shakespeare’s eight history plays in repertory. Brave Spirits Theatre is deeply saddened to announce its closing.

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