UP ON THE MARQUEE: CLYBOURNE PARK!

The Broadway production of Bruce Norris's CLYBOURNE PARK will open on Thursday, April 19 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. The production is now being produced by Jujamcyn.

CLYBOURNE PARK had its Off-Broadway premiere at Playwrights Horizons and is currently playing in Los Angeles; it finishes its run there on February 26. Norris stated: "Jonathan Franzen, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin are three of the most talented people working today, and I was honored to be considered for ‘The Corrections,’ which I’m sure will be a fantastic and successful series. At this moment, however, I feel my priority needs to be writing rather than acting, and so I’ve declined, regretfully, to join them on the project. I wish all success to all the various parties involved and hope to cross paths with them again in the future."

In CLYBOURNE PARK, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Norris imagines the history of one of the more important houses in literary history, both before and after it becomes a focal point in Lorraine Hansberry’s classic "A Raisin in the Sun." In 1959, the house, which is located in a white neighborhood at 406 Clybourne St. in Chicago, is sold to an African-American family (the Younger family in “A Raisin in the Sun”). Then in 2009 after the neighborhood has changed into an African-American community, the house is sold to a white couple. It is through this prism of property ownership that Norris’ lacerating sense of humor dissects race relations and middle class hypocrisies in America.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski

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