New Haven Theater Company and New Haven Review present the Fall 2011 season of “Listen Here,” a series of short story readings staged at Best Video in Hamden.

The format is simple – the editors of the New Haven Review pick fine short stories and New Haven Theater Company provide actors to give voice to those works. It all takes place in the comfort of Best Video’s new performance space, with fine coffee and treats available as well.

The Listen Here series was featured in an October 2009 New York Times article, “Giving Voice to Stories From the Printed Page.” “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 Times wrote.

Boys Meet Girls
September 15, 2011
Amy Hempel’s “Afterlife”
Neil Gaiman’s “How to Talk to Girls at Parties”

It's a Mad, Mad World
October 20, 2011
Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Jack London’s “Moon-Face”

Laugh About It
November 17, 2011
William Saroyan, excerpts from The Human Comedy

Watching the Detectives
December 15, 2011
Woody Allen’s “Mr. Big”
Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Red-Headed League”