Indeed, the action pounds so thickand fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
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 andhard to find anyone with an opinion about anything that is anywhere other than well to the left of center.