The Funny Stages: Spring Fever Edition
New Haven's Only Night of Comedy and Music

Featuring
America's Next Great American Superhero...For America
and
This Just In: You Choose the News, We Make It Up

Wednesday, May 14 · 8pm
BAR (254 Crown Street, New Haven) [map]
$5 cover

The New Haven Register covers New Works New Haven, including detailed descriptions of the plays and directors.

Spotlight’s on local theater talent in New Works New Haven festival [New Haven Register]

New Haven Theater Company and
A Broken Umbrella Theatre present
Two new performances inspired by the themes and ideas
of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

READ BIG!
A Whimsical Journey Following Three Readers Into One Book

Created by Amy Grant, Erich Greene, Kristin Santa Maria & Rachel Shapiro
Directed by Rachel Shapiro

SEARCHING
Leave your cell phones on, bring a laptop,
and let’s see what’s out there

Featuring Jake Bentley, Peter Chenot, Matt Bamberg-Johnson
Claire Richards, Christian Shaboo
Directed by T. Paul Lowry

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]

New Haven Theater Company presents New Works New Haven, a festival of short one-act plays featuring local directors and actors. New Works New Haven plays at Long Wharf Theatre (222 Sargent Drive, New Haven) [map] on:

• Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8pm
• Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8pm
• Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 2pm

Tickets, $10, are available online.

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…