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Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American character actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play Clybourne Park won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Jun 19, 2007 · For a man accused of endangering the mental well-being of six-year-olds, Bruce Norris is astonishingly popular. His colleagues in the theatre admire him.
Clybourne Park is a 2010 play by Bruce Norris inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun (1959). It portrays fictional events set during and after the Hansberry play, and is loosely based on historical events that took place in the city of Chicago.
Clybourne Park Playwright Bruce Norris was in 7th grade when he saw the 1961 film adaptation of "A Raisin in the Sun." BRUCE NORRIS: I grew up in a very segregated part of Houston.
Aug 3, 2011 · “Clybourne Park,” Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, is set in a Chicago neighborhood, but it could be about any American city.
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The world premiere of Downstate, a new play from Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park playwright Bruce Norris, opened the season at Steppenwolf Theatre September 20.
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a razor-sharp satire about the politics of race. In response to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Bruce Norris set up Clybourne Park as a pair of scenes that bookend Hansberry’s piece.
