Theatre Press Releases Nominated for 4 Tony Awards including “Best Play” (Bruce Norris), “Best Direction of a Play” (Pam MacKinnon), “Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play” (Jeremy Shamos), “Best Scenic Design of a Play” (Daniel Ostling), and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award, Clybourne Park is the wickedly funny and fiercely provocative new play about race, real estate and the volatile values of each. Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2010 followed by a critically acclaimed pre-Broadway engagement at Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Under the direction of Pam MacKinnon, the highly praised original cast includes Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood.
The design team features Daniel Ostling (Scenic Design), Ilona Somogyi (Costume Design), Allen Lee Hughes (Lighting Design), and John Gromada (Sound Design).
Clybourne Park is produced by Jujamcyn Theaters, Jane Bergère, Roger Berlind/Quintet Productions, Eric Falkenstein/Dan Frishwasser, Ruth Hendel/Harris Karma Productions, JTG Theatricals, Daryl Roth, Jon B. Platt, Center Theatre Group, in association with Lincoln Center Theater.
Tickets, which range from $30.00 to $127.00 (premium seating ranges from $137.00 to $199.00) are available via telecharge.com, by calling (212) 239-6200/(800) 432-7250, or at the Walter Kerr Theatre box office (219 West 48th Street). Groups of 10 or more can be purchased through telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6262 in New York or (800) 432-7780 outside the NY Metro area. A limited number of $30.00 General Rush tickets are available the day of performances. Tickets can be purchased at the Box Office beginning at 10 am.
Praise for Clybourne Park
“Vital, relevant and ferociously smart! A superlative production of Bruce Norris’s sharp-witted, sharp-toothed Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy.”
-Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Since America elected its first black president, the conversation on race has turned just as loopy as the hilarious and audacious Clybourne Park.”
- Frank Rich, New York Magazine
“A theatrical treasure! Indisputably, Uproariously Funny!”
-Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly
“Funny as hell! The Walter Ker Theatre shakes with gales of laughter.”
-Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post
“Darkly hilarious!”
-David Cote, Time Out NY
“A savagely funny and insightful time-bomb!”
-David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
“A nerve-rattling comedy that makes you laugh, squirm and think.”
-Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News
“Terrific! ‘Clybourne Park’ is everything you want in a play: Smart, witty, provocative and wonderfully acted…”
-Mark Kennedy, Associated Press
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