It’s open house at the Walter Kerr Theatre on April 19, when the Broadway premiere of Bruce Norris’ drama Clybourne Park officially opens on Broadway. Pam MacKinnon directs the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which will run for a 16-week limited engagement.
A slew of stars are expected to attend the opening night performance including Bobby Cannavale, Jake Cannavale, Edie Falco, Bryant and Hilary Gumbel, Tamara Tunie, Elaine Stritch, Ben Feldman, Steven Pasquale, Laura Benanti, Paul Sparks, Martha Plimpton, Salman Rushdie, Wendell Pierce, Pauletta Washington, Roger Rees, Bob Balaban, Rick Elice, Michael Greif, Moisés Kaufman, Arian Moayed, Richard Nelson, Johanna Settle, Lois Smith, Daniel Breaker, Edward Albee, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Tom Kitt and Marsha Norman.
Clybourne Park presents a pair of racially charged real estate transactions involving one house in 1959 and 2009. The Broadway production features Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk, Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos and Frank Wood. MacKinnon’s production of Clybourne Park began life off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2010, before heading to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles for a successful run earlier this year.