What Was Lost

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.

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.

Chronicling her process from the first rehearsal of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie through her legendary first performance as Amanda Wingfield, What Was Lost is a piercing look at the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive. Pennylynn White returns as Laurette Taylor, with Paul Thomas Ryan as Tennessee Williams. They are joined by Rachel Adams, Colin Fisher, Kristen Gehling, Kimberly Faye Greenberg and Brian Piehl. McCasland direcdts.