Damon Gupton

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Broadway: Clybourne Park

Off-Broadway: Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons)

Regional: Clybourne Park (Mark Taper Forum); Superior Donuts (Geffen Playhouse)
 
   
Event
Clybourne Park - as Albert, Kevin
Walter Kerr Theatre
Open: Mar-26 2012
Close: Sep-02 2012

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set 50 years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as nervous community leaders anxiously try to stop the sale of a home to a black family. Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African American neighborhood battles...
 
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Clybourne Park - as Albert, Kevin
Mark Taper Forum
Open: Jan-11 2012
Close: Feb-26 2012

Jokes fly and hidden agendas unfold as two vastly different generations of characters tip-toe the delicate dance of social politics, pitting race against real estate at the crux of two seminal events—50 years apart—in the same North Chicago habitat.
 
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Superior Donuts - as Officer James Bailey
Geffen Playhouse - Gil Cates Theater
Open: May-31 2011
Close: Jul-10 2011

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts weaves a heart-warming and humorous tale of unlikely friendships in one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods. Arthur Przybyszewski’s Superior Donuts has been a community hub for decades, and both the neglected storefront and its rundown...
 
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Clybourne Park
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater
Open: Feb-21 2010
Close: Mar-21 2010

Who are the people in your neighborhood? In 1959, a white family moves out. In 2009, a white family moves in. In the intervening years, change overtakes a neighborhood, along with attitudes, inhabitants, and property values. Loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce Norris's...