Clybourne Park, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play by Bruce Norris, Eyes Transfer from L.A. to Broadway

Clybourne Park, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will likely transfer from the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles to Broadway in the spring of 2012, according to The New York Times. The play debuted in 2010 at Playwrights Horizons to critical acclaim, and original director Pam MacKinnon will stage the L.A. production, which is scheduled to run January 11-February 26. No casting has been announced.

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park was described by the Pulitzer Prize board as “a powerful work whose memorable characters speak in witty and perceptive ways to America's sometimes toxic struggle with race and class consciousness.” The play tells the story of two periods of transition in a suburban Chicago house. In act one, set in 1959, a Caucasian couple has sold the home to the neighborhood's first African-American family—much to the consternation of a rep from the local Rotary Club. In the second act, set in 2009, the house has been sold by a black family to a white couple who plan to tear it down and build a bigger home—much to the consternation of a rep from the now-integrated neighborhood association. The cast plays different roles in each of the play's two acts.

MacKinnon’s off-Broadway premiere production starred Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood. Clybourne Park has been mounted in London, where it won the Olivier Award for Best New Play, and had major productions in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington DC.

Click here to watch MacKinnon and the original off-Broadway cast discuss this provocative play with Broadway.com in an exclusive video feature.