CLYBOURNE PARK Planning Broadway Transfer

CLYBOURNE PARK is eyeing a Broadway transfer, according to The New York Times. The show will first play Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper Forum, which announced its season in full today, from January 11 through February 26. 

"I fell in love with Bruce Norris' ‘Clybourne Park' early on," CTG artistic director Michael Ritchie says. "His original, almost cheeky look at race in America revolves around Lorraine Hansberry's ‘A Raisin in the Sun.'"

On two separate afternoons, 50 years apart, a modest bungalow on Chicago's northwest side becomes a contested site in the politics of race. September 1959: Russ and Bev are moving out to the suburbs. They've inadvertently sold the house to the neighborhood's first black family and ignited a community showdown.

September 2009: the neighborhood is ripe for gentrification and the house is again changing hands. This time to a young white couple with plans for demolition and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. In a provocative nod to A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce Norris takes a hilarious look at what happens when home becomes a battleground.

Bruce Norris won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Clybourne Park. Other works include A Parallelogram, The Unmentionables, The Pain and the Itch, We All Went Down to Amsterdam, Purple Heart and The Infidel.

Read the full New York Times article here.