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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Clybourne Park

Mar 16 – Apr 23, 2022
Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP, United Kingdom

After Bruce Norris’s play Clybourne Park debuted Off Broadway in 2010, it won two of the most prestigious awards in theater: the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Two years later, when it had its Broadway premiere, it won a third: the Tony for Best Play. Written as a spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic, A Raisin in the Sun, Norris’s play is set in Chicago, in Clybourne Park. Act One takes place in 1959, when the neighborhood is white and middle-class. Act Two takes place in the same neighborhood 50 years later, when it has become Black. The latest production of the play is directed by Pam MacKinnon. —Jensen Davis