Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park wins Pulitzer Prize

Bruce Norris’ Olivier award-winning play Clybourne Park, which continues its West End run at the Wyndham’s Theatre until 7 May 2011, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Clybourne Park opened in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court in September 2010, playing to full houses and critical acclaim, before transferring to the West End in Februrary 2011, winning the Critics’ Circle, South Bank and Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Play.

The play was one of three finalists for the drama Pulitzer, which were founded in 1917 named after newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and are awarded for excellence in 21 categories across journalism and the arts. The other plays in contention were Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit and A Free Man of Color by John Guare.

Clybourne Park, written in response to Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun Norris’s play received its world premiere at New York’s Playwrights Horizons in February 2010.