Clybourne Park (play)

Tony Awards 2013: Ceremony returning to Radio City Music Hall

2013-03-18 10:02:00

After two consecutive years at the Beacon Theatre on New York's Upper West Side, the Tony Awards ceremony will return to the more spacious Radio City Music Hall this year. Organizers of Broadway's biggest night announced Monday that the annual awards...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Tracy Letts plays his part in illuminating Edward Albee's 'Woolf'

2012-12-01 07:00:00

NEW YORK — Tracy Letts has his hands full these days writing plays and preparing for the release of the movie version of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama, "August: Osage County." But he's added another formidable task to his agenda: elucidating...

Bruce Norris condemns use of blackface for 'Clybourne Park'

2012-10-17 10:50:00

Bruce Norris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Clybourne Park," has published a letter condemning a production of the drama that had been planned for a theater company in Berlin. The writer said he withdrew rights to the production after learning...

Tony Awards 2012: For 'Once' daring trumps commerce

2012-06-11 08:00:00

Will wonders never cease: David overcame Goliath in a rare victory at the Beacon Theatre that will force us to rethink the old truism that commerce trumps independent vision on Broadway. "Once," the little musical spun from an Irish art house film,...

Mark Taper season includes plays by Bruce Norris, Sebastian Barry

2012-08-22 11:42:00

The 2013 season at the Mark Taper Forum will feature plays by Bruce Norris and Sebastian Barry, as well as revivals of classics by August Wilson and Joe Orton. Actor Brian Dennehy will be featured in Barry's "The Steward of Christendom."� In all, the...

Tony Awards 2012: From L.A. to the Great White Way

2012-06-11 06:30:00

The Tony Awards may be the toast of Broadway, but there were Champagne glasses being raised for some of Sunday's victors who have roots in Southern California. The most noteworthy production was "Clybourne Park," which was named best play. The Pulitzer...

Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners

2012-06-10 22:09:00

Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...

Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo join Tony nominating committee

2012-06-18 11:03:00

Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo and Cheyenne Jackson will be among the new faces joining the nominating committee for next year's Tony Awards. The committee decides on the Tony nominees by seeing all of the productions for the season and then voting...

Center Stage premieres 'Beneatha's Place,' Kwei-Armah's answer to 'Clybourne Park'

2013-05-17 13:19:00

The multifaceted issue of race continues to cling to this country. Every sign of progress in relations seems to come with an opposite move, so that it often seems as if little has ever really, fundamentally changed since the age of Jim Crow, or even...

Being Neighborly — And Not — In 'Clybourne Park'

2013-05-16 13:42:00

Editor's note: This is a corrected version of this online review. Actress Alice Ripley was incorrectly named as Emily Skinner. � The show: "Clybourne Park" at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. First impressions: A lot of words are spoken by the...

Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure

2013-05-13 05:28:00

Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...

Alice Ripley, LeRoy McClain and Melle Powers in a scene from the Long Wharf Theatre production of Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park"

2013-05-17 00:00:00

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" by Bruce Norris experienced some difficulty during its pre-Broadway run at the Mark Taper Forum when the playwright got into a spat with producer Scott Rudin.

2012-12-19 11:29:36

Bruce Norris constructed a provocative history of the house that the African American Younger family is heading to at the end of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun.

2012-12-13 23:19:45