A Family Business: A Play

Fri Jun 13, 2025 - Sat Jun 28, 2025
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Repeating every week — Sundays, Fridays, and Saturdays through June 28, 2025.
Also on June 26, 2025.
8:00pm ET
Age: All Ages
Price: $44.86 and up
Location:
CitySeed
162 James Street, New Haven, CT, 06513
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Inspired by the real stories of New Haven apizza pioneers, Family Business: (A)Pizza Play follows the Carbonizatto family’s pizza shop from it’s immigrant beginnings as it passes down over generations. This production explores New Haven’s pizza magic (la magia dell'apizza) from New Haven’s cultural and historic connection to pizza.

THE CARBONIZATTO STORY Pizza is a big deal in New Haven. It's the Pizza Capital of America, after all. A Broken Umbrella Theatre has always wanted to tell the New Haven Apizza story, but not as a biography of any pizzaioli, but as a story of all of them. To do that, they took New Haven’s Apizza people and joined them into the fictionalized Carbonizzatto Family. Carbonizzatto, from the Italian for “carbonized” — a knowing wink to the black-dusted fingers walking out of any apizza shop.

 

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