NHTC, in partnership with the New Haven Review, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and four area coffeehouses, is pleased to announce the spring season of Listen Here, a weekly short-story reading series in which New Haven Theater Company actors read short stories selected by New Haven Review editors.
An October 2009 New York Times story about Listen Here (“Giving Voice to Stories From the Printed Page”) began, “In an era in which book reading is in decline, it is at once curious and logical that an alliance of New Haven arts groups is tapping the written word in a new venture.”
The cast for the spring Listen Here series is: Hilary Brown, Sharen McKay, Rachel Shapiro Alderman, Brooks Appelbaum, T. Paul Lowry, Jeremy Funke, Eric Nyquist, Steve Scarpa, and Ian Alderman.
Listen Here readings will take place on a rotating basis at Bru Café (141 Orange Street), Lulu: A European Coffeehouse (49 Cottage Street), Manjares Fine Pastries (838 Whalley Avenue), and Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea (194 York Street), on Tuesdays from 7-8pm.
The spring Listen Here schedule is as follows:
March 9: What Did She See in Him?
Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea (194 York Street
Raymond Carver’s “Fat”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Jelly-Bean”
March 16: Short Cuts
Bru Café (141 Orange Street)
I.B. Singer’s “Why the Geese Shrieked”
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
John Cheever’s “Reunion”
Annie Proulx’s “The Blood Bay”
March 23: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Lulu: A European Coffeehouse (49 Cottage Street)
Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”
Bernard Malamud’s “The Jewbird”
March 30: Straight Shooters
Manjares Fine Pastries (838 Whalley Avenue)
Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”
April 6: Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea (194 York Street
James Thurber’s “You Could Look it Up”
James Farrell’s “My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park”
April 13: Something’s Not Right
Bru Café (141 Orange Street)
T.C. Boyle’s “Bloodfall”
Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”
April 20: L’Etranger
Lulu: A European Coffeehouse (49 Cottage Street)
Isidoro Blaistein’s “Uncle Facundo”
John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
April 27: For Shame
Manjares Fine Pastries (838 Whalley Avenue)
Antonya Nelson’s “The Control Group”
Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”
May 4: Lovesick
Willoughby’s Coffee & Tea (194 York Street
Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter”
Lydia Peelle’s “Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing”
May 11: Animal Crackers
Bru Café (141 Orange Street)
Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
Annie Proulx’s “The Half-Skinned Steer”
May 18: Brothers
Lulu: A European Coffeehouse (49 Cottage Street)
Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible”
David Sedaris’ “You Can’t Kill the Rooster”
May 25: Romeos & Juliets
Manjares Fine Pastries (838 Whalley Avenue)
Louise Erdrich’s “The Plague of Doves”
William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
