(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris and inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, is being produced on the mainstage at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) from Thursday, September 26, 2013, through Sunday, October 13, 2013.
Inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, this wickedly funny and fiercely provocative play about race, real estate, and the volatile values of each won nearly every honor the theatre has to give, including the Tony Award for Best Play, Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Clybourne Park’s two acts are set 50 years apart. Act One takes place where the 1959 A Raisin in the Sun leaves off: with a white couple selling their home to a black family and causing uproar among their neighbors. Act Two takes place fifty years later with a black family selling the house to a white family who believe in urban gentrification. Or maybe not.
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and 2012 Tony Award, Clybourne Park is directed by Giovanna Sardelli (BSC’s Muckrakers, Lord of the Flies and The North Pool). Sardelli was featured earlier this year in the Sunday New York Times Arts & Leisure cover story about influential female directors. Clybourne Park is a co-production with Vermont’s Dorset Theatre Festival (Dina Janis, Artistic Director).
The cast features Carol Halstead (Bev/Kathy), recently seen on Broadway in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man; Clea Alsip (Betsey/Lindsey) Long Wharf Theatre’s The Killing of Sister George opposite Kathleen Turner; Kevin Crouch (Jim/Tom/Kenneth) recently performed in His Girl Friday at Connecticut Repertory Theatre; Lynnette R. Freeman (Francine/Lena) recently played Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre; Andy Lucien (Albert/Kevin), recently seen in The Last Seder at Theater Three; Greg Jackson (Karl/Steve) co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in the off-Broadway hit Duet!; and Remi Sandri (Russ/Dan), who starred in the East coast premiere of The North Pool at Barrington Stage.
There will be a talkback with the audience following the Thursday, October 3, performance at 7pm.
Clybourne Park will have performances from September 26 – October 13 at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. Performance times Thursday at 7pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm. Two added performances: Saturday October 5 at 2pm and Sunday, October 13 at 7pm. Tickets start at $20. Low-priced previews on September 26 – 28 are $15/$20. Seniors: $38 all matinees. Youth 18 and under $15 all performances. Additional matinees for student groups are scheduled.