Provocative - Satirical - Insightful

“A savagely funny and insightful time bomb.” - The Hollywood Reporter

The scene is one house on Clybourne Street in Chicago’s South Side. In 1959, a Black family moves in. In 2009, a white family does. In between, everything changes - attitudes, demographics, and property values. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race, housing, and gentrification.

Loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce Norris's biting, dark comedy takes on the specter of gentrification in our communities, leaving no stone unturned in the process.

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Dig Deeper - Press and Resources

• Clybourne Park and Housing in Colorado - Terms and resources to learn more about housing disparities in our community

• A look at the suburbs: Map experts dig for roots of racial separation in metro Denver neighborhoods - Colorado Community Media

• Race, Pulitzers and Punchlines - An interview with playwright Bruce Norris
• "Not Your Parent’s Gentrification: Clybourne Park’s Uncomfortable Take on Neighborhood Change" - Topics of Meta journal
• "A Raisin in the Sun" - Whose American Dream? - National Endowment for the Humanities
• "A Raising in the Sun" - Resistance and Joy - Criterion Collection