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EXTENDED! Now - March 21, 2010
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CRITIC’S PICK “A spiky and damningly insightful new comedy.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

CRITIC’S PICK.  “Splendidly nasty and howlingly funny.  Pam MacKinnon’s expert cast plays this fast, sharp and jagged dialogue like virtuosos.”  - David Cote, Time Out NY

“SUPERB, ELEGANTLY WRITTEN, and HILARIOUS.”
- John Lahr, The New Yorker

GRADE: A. “An absolute corker — a completely audacious, architecturally ingenious entertainment. Norris' dialogue is a never-ending stream of un-PC, did-he-really-just-say-that? jaw-droppers.” - Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly

“ABSOLUTELY SENSATIONAL! The actors fire on all cylinders. Dazzlingly written by Bruce Norris.” – Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post

“Hilarious, sparky, delightfully unrepentant observations about life as we choose to know it.” – Linda Winer, Newsday

FOUR STARS “A SUPERB WORLD PREMIERE! A dynamite cast glides between humor and tragedy and eras without a bobble. **** ” – Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News

“Remarkably perceptive, often hilarious and surprisingly poignant. Pam MacKinnon has staged the play with the precision of an orchestra conductor.” – Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

“Bruce Norris is a wonderful, original, grab-you-by-the-guts playwright. The audience screams with laughter. I URGE YOU TO SEE IT! – Joan Hamburg, WOR Radio





The World Premiere of a play by Bruce Norris

Featuring
Crystal A. Dickinson • Brendan Griffin
Damon Gupton • Christina Kirk • Jeremy Shamos
Annie Parisse • Frank Wood


Scenic Design Dan Ostling  
Costume Design Ilona Somogyi
Lighting Design Allen Lee Hughes
Sound Design John Gromada
Production Stage Manager C. A. Clark

Directed by Pam MacKinnon


Who are the people in your neighborhood?
In 1959, a white family moves out.  In 2009, a white family moves in.  In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants, and property values.  Loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce Norris's pitch-black comedy takes on the specter of gentrification in our communities, leaving no stone unturned in the process.

 

Podcast - ON THE HORIZON #4: Damon Gupton of CLYBOURNE PARK talks to Courtney Beam about the nexus between acting off-Broadway and conducting major symphony orchestras (7:45).

Podcast - CLYBOURNE PARK author & director Bruce Norris & Pam MacKinnon on portraying the 1950s in a contemporary play, theater as a tool for social change (or not), and why bringing the funny just comes naturally. (7:34)

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Clybourne Park runs two hours with one fifteen-minute intermission.
Performance times: Tues-Fri at 8:00pm, Sat at 2:30 & 8:00pm, and Sun at 2:30 & 7:30pm.

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