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2024 · Next Door, 175 Humphrey Street

A Slice

Inspired by the real stories of New Haven apizza pioneers.

East RockNeighborhoods in this work
1925

Frank Pepe's Opens

Frank Pepe opens his iconic pizzeria on Wooster Street, establishing a cornerstone of New Haven food history.

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The Arts Paper2024

Feature on A Slice at Next Door, the work-in-progress apizza musical that seeded Family Business.

A Broken Umbrella Makes (A)Pizza A Family Affair
Arts Counsel of New Haven2025

A gentle, genuine, totally delightful homage to New Haven pizza and its real-life matriarchs.

Family Business Charts Apizza Through the Generations
New Haven Register2024

Arts & Ideas food-event roundup naming A Slice as a preview of a longer theatrical work about New Haven-style apizza.

Apizza, empanada-making among New Haven Arts & Ideas food events