Pulitzer Prize Winner Clybourne Park Gets Spring 2012 Broadway Berth

Confirming earlier speculation, Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park will transfer to Broadway following its Los Angeles run. The play will begin previews on an as-yet unspecified date and open on April 12 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, directed by Pam MacKinnon. Clybourne Park’s original off-Broadway cast (Crystal A. Dickinson as Francine/Lena, Brendan Griffin as Jim/Tom/Kenneth, Damon Gupton as Albert/Kevin, Christina Kirk as Bev/Kathy, Annie Parisse as Betsy/Lindsay, Jeremy Shamos as Karl/Steve and Tony winner Frank Wood as Russ/Dan) "is expected to make the move to Broadway," according to a news release. The actors are currently reprising their roles at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where their limited engagement concludes February 26.

Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park 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.

Clybourne Park first opened at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons on February 21, 2010. The show 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, D.C.