Family Business: (A)Pizza Play
Opening June 13th, 2025!
Tickets on sale now!
In A Broken Umbrella Theatre’s 15th original production inspired by the culture and history of New Haven, we serve apizza.
In Family Business: (A)Pizza Play, we join Lucrezia, Francesca, Janice, and Faith as they grapple with family, tradition, and legacy while the family pizza shop changes hands in 1929, 1949, 1989, and 2010. The play is inspired by New Haven's century-old apizza history.
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Starting June 13th, 2025
International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Our production explores pizza magic (la magia dell'apizza) through New Haven’s cultural and historic connection to pizza.
Family Business: (A)Pizza Play is a continuation from 2024’s A Slice:
A Slice
A Slice was performed at Next Door Pizza in New Haven as part of the 2024 International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
A Slice is only the seed for the full production in 2025 of Apizza: New Haven’s Family Business, or as Bruno Cantante sings in the show, “One slice don’t make a pie.”
THE CARBONIZATTO STORY
Pizza is a big deal in New Haven. We’re 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, we 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.
In A Slice, we see multiple generations of the Carbonizzattos throughout history, but always in New Haven and always at their pizza shop. The Carbonizattos struggle from generation to generation as they grapple with what they owe to future Carbonizattos — and what do they owe to those who came before?
Because this is part of a larger story, and it’s not just about Apizza, it’s about a family. A Slice is only the seed for our full production in 2025 of Apizza: New Haven’s Family Business, or as Bruno Cantante sings in the show, “One slice don’t make a pie.”
