Music Theatre of Connecticut MainStage, Fairfield County’s professional award-winning theatre company continues their 37th MainStage Season with the Tony & Pulitzer Award winning play, Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. Borrowing elements from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park explores race relations and gentrification in the changing face of a Chicago neighborhood. Clybourne Park will run three weekends from November 3rd – November 19th, 2023 with performances on Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm and Saturday & Sundays at 2pm.

Clybourne Park explodes in two outrageous acts set fifty years apart. Act One takes place in 1959, as white 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 to hold its ground in the face of gentrification. In both instances, a community showdown takes place, pitting race against real estate with this home as the battleground.

MTC MainStage gives a huge thank you to its season sponsors, Circle Care Center, The Burry Fredrik Foundation, The Schnurmacher Foundation, and the State of Connecticut DECD/COA.