New Comedy Clybourne Park Extends at Playwrights Horizons

Clybourne Park, Bruce Norris' new black comedy about race and real estate, will get a two-week extension at Playwrights Horizons. The off-Broadway production opened to rave reviews on February 21 and will now run through March 21 rather than the previously announced closing date of March 7, directed by Pam MacKinnon.

The ensemble cast, which plays two entirely different sets of characters in the play’s two acts, consists of Tony Award winner Frank Wood, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos, Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton and Christina Kirk. To watch Broadway.com’s video preview of the play, click here.

Clybourne Park begins in 1959 as a white family moves out. In Act Two, it’s 2009 and a white family moves in. In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants and property values. Loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, this pitch-black comedy takes on the specter of gentrification in one of America’s most recognizable communities, leaving no stone unturned in the process.