In a provocative nod to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Bruce Norris takes a look at what happens when home becomes a battleground in the politics of race. Clybourne Park is a dark comedy set on two separate afternoons, fifty years apart. September 1959: Russ and Bev are moving out of the suburbs. They’ve inadvertently sold the house to the neighborhood’s first black family and ignited a community showdown. September 2009: the neighborhood is ripe for gentrification and the house is again changing hands. This time to a young white couple with plans for demolition and a knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Content Warning: Clybourne Park discusses and depicts sensitive topics such as racial discrimination, PTSD, and suicide, and contains adult humor and strong language which may be inappropriate for children. Please contact us if you have any questions.

Location: 

Old Town Hall

3999 University Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030

Check out this 1989 Washington Post article about Historic Fairfax City's School St, located just a few blocks from Old Town Hall, where residents of the last historically black neighborhood in Fairfax City sold their homes to a developer with plans to build luxury homes in what became a mostly white neighborhood, and remains so to this day.

Cast: 

Bev/Kathy: Ann Brodnax

Russ/Dan: Kevin Dykstra

Francine/Lena: Khanner Hancock

Jim/Tom/Kenneth: Eric Kennedy

Albert/Kevin: Tokunbo Adedeinde

Karl/Steve: Rob Gorman

Betsy: Shanna Sorrells

Lindsey: Olivia Hinebaugh