Open Stage of Harrisburg's CLYBOURNE PARK Opens 4/11

Open Stage of Harrisburg continues its 28th season with the regional premiere of Bruce Norris' award-winning play, Clybourne Park, running from April 11 through May 3. Winner of a Tony Award for Best Play, the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award, and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this cutting-edge, wickedly funny satire digs into the heart of race and real estate in the suburbs of Chicago. Inspired by historical events, the play begins in 1959 when a white couple sells their home to the neighborhood's first black family, and thus sparks controversy. Fifty years later, the house is again changing hands, this time to a young white couple moving into the now black community.

Bruce Norris is the author of Clybourne Park, which won the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards (London) for Best Play, 2010, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2011. Other plays include The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2004), The Unmentionables (2006) and A Parallelogram (2010), all of which had their premieres at Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago. His newest play, Domesticated, will be produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2013. His work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons (New York), Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington D.C.), Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Staatstheater Mainz (Germany), among others. He is also the 2009 recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award.

This provocative salute to Lorraine Hansberry's classic piece A Raisin in the Sun features Dan Burke, Valerie Rae Smith, Jennette Harrison, Benjamin Koontz, Jeremy Patterson, Stuart Landon, and Kimorie Cherry. Leslie Gulden is Stage Manager, with Jessica Youtz assisting. Executive Artistic Director Donald Alsedek directs this compelling Hangar production. Three accomplished designers have signed on to assist Alsedek on this project, including Resident Costume Designer Gwen Alsedek, Set Designer Steve Krempasky, and Lighting Designer Tristian Stasiulis.

For tickets and information, please call 717-232-OPEN(6736) or visit www.openstagehbg.com. Tickets range from $25 to $35. Additional savings are available for groups, students, and those who join Open Stage for Thrifty Thursdays presented by PSEA - meaning discounted seats can be obtained for as little as $15! Open Stage of Harrisburg is affordable to people in the community who are just starting school, starting careers, and starting families - because lower prices are now available for every performance.