Broadway Run for 'Clybourne Park' in Jeopardy A clash of wills between a powerful Broadway producer, Scott Rudin ("The Book of Mormon"), and an acclaimed playwright, Bruce Norris, is jeopardizing the Broadway premiere this spring of Mr. Norris's satire "Clybourne Park," which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama last year and has been widely viewed as a leading contender for the 2012 Tony Award for best play. Mr. Rudin was among the producers planning to bring "Clybourne" to Broadway this spring, but he has left the project, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The reason, according to other theater executives involved with the "Clybourne" production, was that Mr. Norris (who is also an actor) withdrew this week from a significant role in a television pilot that Mr. Rudin is producing for HBO, an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's novel "The Corrections." Mr. Rudin, a highly successful producer in film and television as well, having won the Academy Award for best picture in 2008 for "No Country for Old Men," believed that Mr. Norris crossed him after months of contract negotiations on "The Corrections," according to the theater executives. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of antagonizing Mr. Rudin, who usually has a couple of gold-plated projects for Broadway each season, including the upcoming "Death of a Salesman" revival starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. The producer's decision to withdraw from "Clybourne Park" was first reported on Wednesday by The New York Post. Mr. Rudin, through a spokesman, declined to comment. Mr. Norris, reached by e-mail on Wednesday, declined to comment on Mr. Rudin's decision to pull out of "Clybourne Park." Instead he issued a statement about his own decision to depart "The Corrections," which Noah Baumbach ("Greenberg") is attached to direct. "Jonathan Franzen, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin are three of the most talented people working today, and I was honored to be considered for "The Corrections," which I'm sure will be a fantastic and successful series," Mr. Norris said in the statement. At this moment, however, I feel my priority needs to be writing rather than acting, and so I've declined, regretfully, to join them on the project. I wish all success to all the various parties involved and hope to cross paths with them again in the future. Mr. Rudin's withdrawal from "Clybourne Park" - along with the theater producer Stuart Thompson, who regularly works with Mr. Rudin - threatens the Broadway run of Mr. Norris's play because they and their investors were expected to finance most of the production's capitalization, which was likely to be between $2.5 million and $3 million (standard for a Broadway play). The nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater had also signed on as a producer, but its contribution was expected to be only in the six figures, and executives there were said to be unwilling on Wednesday to provide a larger financial stake. A Lincoln Center Theater spokesman on Wednesday confirmed that the nonprofit was set to be an investor but declined to specify the dollar amount. The fate of "Clybourne Park" on Broadway now rests largely with the theater producer and landlord Jordan Roth, whose company owns the Walter Kerr Theater, where the play was set to begin performances this spring and open on April 12. The theater executives who spoke on condition of anonymity said Mr. Roth had tried to hold on to the investors who Mr. Rudin had lined up for "Clybourne," but Mr. Rudin had taken them with him. The executives said Mr. Roth was working the phones on Wednesday trying to find other backers, but faced the challenge of persuading producers who might not want to suggest they were crossing Mr. Rudin, who is known for a long memory. Mr. Roth said on Wednesday that he hoped to have information soon about "Clybourne Park," but declined to say what he was doing to try to save it. He also declined to say if he was considering personally financing the show, or if he was talking to the busy theater producer Daryl Roth, who is his mother, about investing in the show. Ms. Roth is one of the wealthiest theater producers in New York, and Mr. Roth is believed to have substantial means. "Clybourne Park," a satire about race and neighbors, is set in 1959 and 2009 in a fictional part of Chicago (which provides the title) that was discussed longingly in Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun." The play was first produced in February 2010 at the Off Broadway nonprofit Playwrights Horizons; despite strong reviews, the production could not secure a transfer to Broadway in time to be eligible for the Tonys that spring; instead, it closed in New York that March. The play was a hit in London's West End, and in 2011 "Clybourne Park" won both the Pulitzer and Britain's Olivier Award for best new play. The Playwrights Horizons production was then reconstituted for a run this winter at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; the move to Broadway is expected to include that entire cast, with the Tony Award winner Frank Wood ("Side Man"), Annie Parisse ("Becky Shaw"), Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton, Christina Kirk and Jeremy Shamos. Pam MacKinnon was set to direct on Broadway, as she did at Playwrights Horizons and at the Taper.