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In 2020, Brave Spirits Theatre will make history by becoming the first professional American theatre company to mount full productions of Shakespeare’s two tetralogies and perform them in repertory.
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Our Most Successful Fête!
On Monday, December 5th, Brave Spirits held our Third Annual Fundraising Fête. The evening included mingling, food and drink, a…
Tackling Gender Bias in Classical Theatre
We’ll be joining WSC Avant Bard on Saturday, December 3rd, following their 2pm matinee of TAME. for a post show discussion. TAME. is…
Cleopatra and the Male Gaze
Woolly Mammoth’s recent production of Collective Rage: A Play in Five Boops made waves in the DC theatre community. In…
Searching for ‘drunken Antony’ and the ‘Cleopatra…i’th’ posture of a whore’
The quick comedians Extemporally…
Alexandria: The City of Cleopatra
Much of Antony and Cleopatra takes place in the Egyptian capital of Alexandria and the city-state featured largely as a…
Enobarbus and the Mystery of the Broken Heart
When Enobarbus deserts Anthony, he leaves behind everything but his regret. ‘I have done ill,’ he says, ‘Of which I…