Clybourne Park Gets New Dates for Spring Broadway Opening

The bumpy Broadway journey of Clybourne Park will officially end happily: Jujamcyn Theaters president Jordan Roth announced that Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play will begin previews at his company’s Walter Kerr Theatre on March 26 and open on April 19 for a 16-week limited engagement, directed by Pam MacKinnon. The opening date is one week later than previously announced.

Clybourne Park lost lead producer Scott Rudin on January 31 after Norris declined to accept a leading role in Rudin’s upcoming HBO adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. The play is currently running at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where it will close on February 26. MacKinnon’s production began life at Playwrights Horizons in 2010.

The play presents a pair of racially charged real estate transactions involving one house in 1959 and 2009.The Broadway production will feature original cast members Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood. 

Set design for Clybourne Park is by Daniel Ostling with costumes by Ilona Somogyi, lighting by Allen Lee Hughes, and sound by John Gromada. The news release from Roth, who called the play a “masterwork,” did not specify a list of producers for the Broadway engagement.