Clybourne Park at Steppenwolf Theater

Overview:

On two separate afternoons, 50 years apart, a modest bungalow on Chicago's northwest side becomes a contested site in the politics of race. September 1959: Russ and Bev are moving out to 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 things at the wrong time. 

In a provocative nod to A Raisin in the Sun, Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris takes a hilarious look at what happens when home becomes a battleground. 

Click on Vlog to view the video about "Clybourne Park" at the Steppenwolf Theater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfHjLmus2A&feature=BFp&list=FLKrPH2aDoE4X8JBIpz7OxBA

"RED" Vlog - Sign Language Interpreted at Goodman Theater, Wednesday Sept. 28th at 7:30pm

Interpreted Show RED at Goodman Theatre on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Full-blooded and visceral, the Tony Award-winning Red takes you into the mind of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, for whom paintings are "pulsating" life forces and art is intended to stop the heart.


Red chronicles the tormented painter's two-year struggle to complete a lucrative set of murals for Manhattan's exclusive Four Seasons restaurant, and his fraught relationship with a seemingly naïve young assistant, who must choose between appeasing his mentor—and changing the course of art history. Set amid the swiftly changing cultural tide of the early 1960s, Red is a startling snapshot of a brilliant artist at the height of his fame, a play hailed as "intense and exciting" by the The New York Times.

Red is produced in association with Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Molly Smith, Artistic Director
Edgar Dobie, Managing Director

Red runs approximately one hour and 40 minutes, with no intermission.