All the World Wide Web is a stage, and anyone can be our star! NHTC announces UBRSTAR.com and T. Paul Lowry (NHTC Creative Director/ Producer) will direct the first project “Run to the Capulets, Raise up the Montagues”, a modern re-constructed adaptation of Romeo & Juliet, investigating the death of the famous lovers, utilizing Shakespeare’s classic text, virtual cast members, music and video projection. The first production will be part of the Stratford Summer Arts Festival.

On Sunday, April 13, 2008, New Haven Theater Company partnered with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven to present Exact Change, a project bringing our improv comedy and Latino children's theater to unsuspecting riders on New Haven public transportation.

For our part, we saw it as a continuation of Meter Theater, bringing non-traditional performances to non-traditional venues—here, the streets of our city.

Here's what the press had to say:

• Poetry, music come free when Exact Change gets aboard [New Haven Register]
• Buses Commandeered For Art [New Haven Independent]

The Playgoer, probably one of the first and certainly one of the best New York theater bloggers, has posted some thoughts about the increasing disrption of live theater by cellphones. He recounts a particularly obtrustive incident during a performance of The Pillowman, and muses…