Alice Ripley to Star in CLYBOURNE PARK at Long Wharf Theatre

According to the Hartford Courant, Tony winner Alice Ripley has signed on to star in Clybourne Park at Connecticut's Long Wharf Theatre. Directed by Eric Ting, the show will run May 8 through June 2.

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Recently described as a "force of nature" by Variety, Alice Ripley recently completed her stint as Diana Goodman in the national tour of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal. Her other Broadway credits include The Who's Tommy, Sunset Boulevard, King David, Les Miserables and The Rocky Horror Show. Winner of the Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production of Next to Normal, Ripley boasts a Broadway career that spans over three decades. She has written over one hundred songs and she records and performs regularly with her band RIPLEY. Her first solo album, "Everything's Fine", was released in 2001 by Sh-K-Boom Records.

Race and real estate collide in this outrageously funny and provocative Pulitzer Prize-winning new play. The action begins in 1959 in a small suburb of Chicago when we meet a nervous group of neighbors trying to talk their friends out of selling their home to a black family. Fast forward to the same house fifty years later when sparks fly as a white family attempts to move into the now predominantly African-American neighborhood. Described as "an ingenious, audacious lightning rod of a play" by Entertainment Weekly, Clybourne Park examines America's complex relationship with race with sharp humor and deep perception.

For more information or to reserve tickets, call 203-787-4282 or visit www.longwharf.org.