Otherwise, it's going to be "The Odd Couple" and "Clybourne Park" over and over again, forever.
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Now that I've seen "Clybourne Park, " I understand why it's such a hot property.
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It doesn't help that "Clybourne Park, " for all its conceptual cleverness, isn't very well made.
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The bad news is that the comedy in "Clybourne Park" amounts to little more than lazy caricature.
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The new season follows recent blockbuster Royal Court transfers Jerusalem and Clybourne Park.
Best play honors, meanwhile, went to "Clybourne Park, " topping, among others, "Peter and the Starcatcher, " which had led all plays with nine nominations.
It happens that I was on the road throughout last year's off-Broadway run of "Clybourne Park, " and ever since then I've been wondering what I missed.
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Clybourne Park opens at the Wyndham's Theatre on 8 February.
Sure enough, white flight turned Clybourne Park into a crime-ridden ghetto, but one that has since been transformed yet again, this time by the equally inexorable forces of gentrification.
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"Clybourne Park" turns out to be a runny egg, a play that pretends to be daring but takes the utmost care not to be too challenging to the assumptions of its viewers.
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Director Pam MacKinnon (who most recently helmed "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "Clybourne Park" on Broadway) creates a suspenseful air of cat-and-mouse intrigue, although who's the cat is never really an issue.
In the first act of "Clybourne Park, " set in 1959, we meet Bev and Russ (Christina Kirk and Frank Wood), who are selling their house to the Youngers (who are talked about but never seen).
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Inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park - a satire about race and class - won a Tony and an Olivier earlier this year, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year.
What makes the success of "Clybourne Park" so interesting is that American theater is a monoculture, a thick-walled bubble in which you'll look long and hard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.
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Though it's been nine years since "Raisin" was last seen on Broadway, it was already receiving its fair share of regional productions prior to the 2010 premiere of "Clybourne Park, " in which Bruce Norris imagined what might have happened to the house that the Younger family bought in the early 1950s.
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