New Haven - It All Happens Here

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and the New Haven Review, in partnership with the New Haven Theater Company and four area coffeehouses, are pleased to announce the launch of Listen Here! a free weekly short story reading series. 

On Tuesday evenings, from 7-8p, actors from the New Haven Theater Company will read short stories chosen by New Haven Review editors. Readings will take place on a rotating basis at Bru Café (141 Orange Street), Willoughby's Coffee & Tea (194 York Street), Lulu: A European Coffeehouse (49 Cottage Street) and Manjares Fine Pastries (838 Whalley Avenue).

To follow the event and read more visit:

New Haven Review

Arts Council of Greater New Haven

New Haven Theater Company

The March 2010 Listen Here! schedule is as follows:

March 9 @ Willoughby's Coffee & Tea
What Did She See in Him?
Raymond Carver’s “Fat”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Jelly-Bean”

March 16 @ Lulu: A European Coffeehouse
Short Cuts
I.B. Singer’s “Why the Geese Shrieked”
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
John Cheever’s “Reunion”
Annie Proulx’s “The Blood Bay”

March 23 @ Bru Café
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”
Bernard Malamud’s “The Jewbird”

March 30 @ Manjares Fine Pastries
Straight Shooters
Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow”