New Haven CT’s Institute Library provides the stage for the next Acting Out performance by Theatre 4. Acting Out is a simple, yet unique concept and one of Theatre 4‘s signatures: they partner with a local business who provides the setting for the production, local playwrights craft short plays using some aspect of the location as inspiration for their art and the actors take it from script to reality, providing stimulating and thought provoking theatre with a unique vantage point for the audience.
The Institute Library (founded in 1826) was” long a democratic center of literary culture, adult education, and civil discourse in New Haven, offering classes, debates, and popular lectures for men and women of different social and economic backgrounds. A rare refuge in New Haven for advocates of women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, the library attracted such notable progressive speakers as Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anna E. Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass.” As the library moves into the future, what a perfect place for playwrights MJ Kaufman and Doron Ben-Atar and the cast and crew of Theatre4 to make their contribution to its long and venerable history.
