Theatre Review: ‘Clybourne Park’ at the Mark Taper Forum
BY CHARLES MCNULTY, LA Times Can a drama be memorable if all its characters are disagreeable? Bruce Norris proves that it’s possible in “Clybourne Park,” his smart, abrasively funny and fiendishly provocative play that opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum. This superb production, which premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2010, is headed to Broadway after its Los Angeles run. And the precision with which the cast members, under the expert direction of Pam Mac
Theatre Review: ‘Clybourne Park’
BY BOB VARINI, Variety Remember the pan across the appalled, slackjawed audience in the original movie "The Producers," at the end of "Springtime for Hitler"? The cast of Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park" would surely see Taper spectators' faces registering similar horror eight times a week, were they not so focused behind the fourth wall on bringing to life the Pulitzer Prize winning, coruscating exploration of how we talk and think about race in America. Yes, it's dangerous an
Clybourne Park Review
BY TANNER STRANSKY, Entertainment Weekly Nary a detail was changed in the NYC-to-L.A. transfer of Bruce Norris' lightning rod of a play, Clybourne Park, which is running at the Mark Taper Forum through Feb. 26. Everything's the same as it was during the Pulitzer Prize-winning outing in the Big Apple, from the cast down to the graffiti on the walls of 406 Clybourne Street in the show's second act. That's all good news: It's still the same racially charged, brilliantly acted, c
