"Clybourne Park": America's Conversation on Race Brought Powerfully to the Stage

by Jon Sobel — It's 1959 and a white neighborhood fears a black family moving in – the flip side of "A Raisin in the Sun." After "white flight" the neighborhood hits hard times – then, half a century later, gentrifying whites come back. Playwright Bruce Norris expertly spins the cycle.

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