Following critically acclaimed workshop presentations, the plays of Steven Carl McCasland will return to NYC in a month-long festival celebrating the young playwright. Together with The Clarion Theatre, Beautiful Soup will present five plays beginning May 7th, 2015, with a company of more than fifteen actors, all performing in repertory.
LITTLE WARS
It's France, 1939 in Little Wars. Tensions are high. The booze is flowing. War is coming. The savviest women on earth are having the what-if dinner party you always imagined. Together they'll drink, scoff and face their demons. Someone has a secret. All of them have confessions.
WHAT WAS LOST
In What Was Lost, beloved stage actress Laurette Taylor returns to the stage after a six-year hiatus. BroadwayWorld critic Kristen Morale called the play “one of the most riveting” she had ever seen. For the first time in over a decade, she takes to the stage sober.
DER KANARIENVOGEL
In Der Kanarienvogel, Soprano Anna Kirkland (Rags) stars as legendary soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Long believed to have been a Nazi sympathizer, the play explores her affair with Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels and her connections the inner sanctums of The Third Reich.
NEAT AND TIDY
Neat & Tidy returns to the stage after its acclaimed premiere in 2012. When a child is brutally murdered, the seismic aftershocks ripple throughout a small town. At its center, a marriage cripples under the weight.
28 MERCHANT AVENUE
In 28 Marchant Avenue, Steven Carl McCasland draws back the curtain on The Kennedy Family's Hyannisport compound. Examining five summers in the family's lives, the play focuses on the lobotomy of Rose Marie Kennedy. Spend each fading summer with John, Joe, Eunice, Kathleen, Bobby, Pat, Rose, Joseph and Rosemary as the family grapples with their skeletons
VISIT: https://www.showclix.com/events/1307 for performance dates & times
