Archive: Arts & Entertainment

Hangar Theatre continues its 39th season with the regional premiere of  Bruce Norris' award-winning play, Clybourne Park, running from August 8th through 17th. Named Time Magazine's #1 play of 2012, Clybourne Park also won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Olivier Award, the Evening Standard Award, and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

This cutting-edge, wickedly funny satire digs into the heart of race and real estate in the suburbs of Chicago. Inspired by historical events, the play begins in 1959 when a white couple sells their home to the neighborhood's first black family, and thus sparks controversy. Fifty years later, the house is again changing hands, this time to a young white couple moving into the now black community.

This provocative salute to Lorraine Hansberry's classic piece A Raisin in the Sun features John Bolton (Broadway's Curtains, Spamalot; TV's The Good Wife, Boardwalk Empire), Jesse Bush (the Hangar's November and Ever So Humble, the film BIRDMAN opposite Michael Keaton), and Jeremy Ellison Gladstone (Hangar's Titanic and Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks). Joining them on stage are Amy Da Luz (Picnic and Little Foxes at Triad Stage and Next Fall at Paper Lantern Theatre Company) and Edward O'Blenis (Richard the Second at Yale Repertory Theatre and Hamlet at Moonworks Theatre) with recent NYU graduates Kullan Edberg and Olivia Washington. Acting Artistic Director Stephanie Yankwitt directs.

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