Beautiful Soup

a Theater Collective in NYC

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: separate; "><div class="paragraph editable-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida sans' !important; text-align: left; display: block; "><font size="2">The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective was founded in the summer of 2010 by its Artistic Director,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.stevencarlmccasland.com/" target="_blank" title="" style="color: rgb(255, 143, 0); text-decoration: none; ">Steven Carl McCasland</a>. McCasland, who founded Group Therapy Productions while a student at Pace University, has been directing in New York (Medea, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Antigone, Death of a Salesman, Hamlet, and others) since 2005.&nbsp;</font><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; "><a style="color: rgb(255, 143, 0); text-decoration: none; "><img src="http://www.beautifulsouptheatercollective.org/uploads/7/2/7/2/727289/1078901.jpg?345" alt="Picture" class="galleryImageBorder" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; "></a><div style="display: block; font-size: 11px; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">(L to R) Steven Carl McCasland as the Mock Turtle, Emily Floyd as Alice and Anne Richmond as the Gryphon singing "Beautiful Soup" from ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES (June, 2011)</div></div></div><div class="paragraph editable-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'lucida sans' !important; text-align: left; display: block; "><font size="2">Beautiful Soup uses theater to bring to light our own struggles and create a dialog. Exploring new works and classics in innovative ways, stretching a shoe-string budget to create visually enchanting minimalist productions, the Collective honors a different charitable organization with each production. Often using the themes of the piece at hand, (<em style="position: relative; ">Crossing Brooklyn,&nbsp;</em>a musical about a teacher, benefited Artists Striving to End Poverty, who visit third-world countries to teach the arts), a portion of funds raised at the box office are donated to the chosen charity.<br><br>While serving the community, the Soup strives to bring light to all types of theater, new and old. Each season, the Collective presents two Shakespearean revivals, a workshop of a world premiere play, a play by a major writer within the last 150 years (Ibsen, Miller, Williams, Foote, Chekhov, O'Neill, to name a few...), a workshop of a new musical. Each season will also feature a world premiere children's theater production.&nbsp;<br><br>Previous productions include:&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">BLACK [Billy Learns About Captain Kirk] &amp; BLUE</em>,&nbsp;William Shakespeare's&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">Hamlet</em>,&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">Crossing Brooklyn:&nbsp;</em>a musical by Jenny Giering and Laura Harrington,&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">The WSXR Players' Present Their June 7, 1944 Broadcast of William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, or What You Will</em>and Steven Carl McCasland's world premiere play,&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)</em>.&nbsp;<br><br>Theater&nbsp;<em style="position: relative; ">can</em>&nbsp;be for the masses<em style="position: relative; ">&nbsp;if</em>&nbsp;we let it. With The Beautiful Soup Theater Collective, you can return to your roots and explore the boundaries of theater while continuing to serve your community.&nbsp;</font></div></span>

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