Clybourne Park
Run Time:
2 hours 5 minutes (one intermission)
Opened: April 19, 20122 hours 5 minutes (one intermission)
Closing: September 02, 2012
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Walter Kerr Theatre (Broadway)
219 West 48th St. New York, NY
In CLYBOURNE PARK, which also won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, Bruce 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.
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REVIEW: Visit ‘Clybourne Park’
8 / 10
Observantly dressed by designer Ilona Somogyi, a well-meshed ensemble of seven excellent actors confidently invests their characters of 1959 and 2009 with distinctive personalities under director Pam MacKinnon’s discerning guidance. Designer Daniel Ostling provides a realistic setting that poignantly suffers the passing years. A smartly-written play sure to provoke conversation afterwards, “Clybourne Park” may be too emotionally cool to please sentimental viewers, but many others are sure to enjoy the nasty conflicts that erupt when presumably nice people show their true colors.
STAGE REVIEW Clybourne Park
9 / 10
Thankfully, Pam MacKinnon's crackerjack production hasn't lost any of its punch since its 2010 premiere at Off Broadway's Playwrights Horizons; in fact, it's tighter, a touch faster paced, and even more unflinchingly intense. And actors have only improved (though improvement was by no means necessary). Dickinson makes Lena ever so slightly more sympathetic; Kirk is even more beautifully clueless in both her roles; and Shamos, an always terrific, long-unheralded actor, is a poker-faced marvel as both Karl and Steve.
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Clybourne Park has had 4 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 2010, West End which opened in 2011, Broadway which opened in 2012 and West End which opened in 2022.
Best Play , Best Direction of a Play for Pam MacKinnon and Best Scenic Design of a Play for Daniel Ostling.
Best Play, Best Direction of a Play for Pam MacKinnon Best Scenic Design of a Play for Daniel Ostling.
Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Jeremy ShamosDistinguished Production of a Play (Drama League Awards) and Outstanding Debut Performance (Theatre World Awards) for Crystal A. Dickinson.
Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Jeremy Shamos Distinguished Production of a Play (Drama League Awards) Outstanding Debut Performance (Theatre World Awards) for Crystal A. Dickinson.
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