“Clybourne Park,” winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, continues at the Arden Theatre Company through March 18.

The play tells the story of a house, a neighborhood, and the people who have come and gone over five decades. Leasing characters and property from the 1959 classic “A Raisin in the Sun,“ the story explains that gentrification is not just Black and white.

Ambler native Josh Tower takes two roles, both as husbands, in the plot: Albert in Act I, and Kevin in Act II. “In both roles I act as a support to the households and the neighborhoods, trying to keep everything going smoothly and help get done what needs to be done,” he says.

Tower goes on to explain that grieving white parents are planning to sell their home in the white middle-class Chicago neighborhood of Clybourne Park. With a Black couple poised to buy the property, the white parents are begged not to sell to the couple, voicing fear that property values will fall if Black residents move in.

“Then, set in the same home some fifty years later, Clybourne Park has become an all-Black neighborhood now gentrifying. But as a white couple seek to buy and renovate the house, Black neighbors seek to block the deal,” Tower explains.

With race an issue in the play, Tower acknowledges that it can also be an issue in the life of an actor. He says, “As a Black actor, it can be quite difficult to find a good role. Just look at the range of rolls available to Black actors as opposed to white actors. Although unspoken, I believe the color line is still harsh.”

Still, Tower himself has been able to garner great parts in great productions. A graduate of Temple University, with an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tower served in the U.S. Army. Once discharged, he headed right for New York and to begin work as an actor. He understudied the role of Simba in “The Lion King.” and eventually got the role for himself and played it on Broadway as well as in the first national tour.

“I’m probably best known for that role, as well as ‘Langston in Harlem,’ which I played off-Broadway. Those shows were both very special to me,” Tower says.

But there were many others that also appear on his resume and which hold special places in his heart, including “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Miss Saigon,” “Dreamgirls,” “As You Like It” and others

“I grew up not quite sure what I wanted to do,” Towers explains. “I always loved to sing and was always involved in my school’s choir. I was also involved in the varsity wrestling team but I was just a mediocre athlete. So I quit and got more involved in high school with musicals, getting cast for the first time in ‘South Pacific.’”

After graduation and still unsure about what he wanted to do as a career, Tower enrolled in Montgomery County Community College and studied communications, with an eye to one day working as a radio DJ. But later, and by the time he was discharged from the service, he began listening to his mother’s sage advise about doing something you love to do. So he finally decided to become an actor.

“And I’m so glad I did,” he insists. “Today, especially, it’s great to be working with such a talented group of people, and extra special to be doing that work back home in Philadelphia. Also, working with the Arden has been one of the greatest gifts of all.”

When “Clybourne Park” ends, Towers, who enjoys writing as well as acting, says he would like to do more writing and, hopefully, get one of his scripts picked up and made into a film.

“I also like directing. So we’ll see what happens,” he concludes. “I think it’s all a matter of luck, timing, and even knowing the right people. And I can only hope it all comes together someday for me.”

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