A Raisin in the Sun Broadway in 1959 - A Raisin in the Sun Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of ...

Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” is being staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, starring with Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.

'A Raisin in the Sun': Court Theatre's strong cast drives play that's powerful and sadly topical Brian Keys’ Walter builds tension while Shanésia Davis’ Lena radiates warmth in the classic ...

“A Raisin in the Sun” is about dreams. This, of course, is not revelatory to anyone well-versed in theater. But the production onstage at Rollins College’s Annie Russell Theatre reminded me ...

But every choice serves Hansberry’s vision. In 1959, When A Raisin in the Sun was first on Broadway, she found herself combatting some serious misperceptions of the play.

“A Raisin in the Sun” is best known as a play about the characters’ desire to move to a white neighborhood and, indeed, that’s the choice around which Hansberry structured her work.

Theatrical Outfit is opening its new season with “A Raisin in the Sun,” running through Sept. 29. The classic American play written by Lorraine Hansberry opened on Broadway in 1959. The story ...

Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play about racism, family, property, and social mobility rings painfully true today, in a pristinely acted, brilliant revival at the Public Theater.

Waithe and Jacobs-Jenkins discuss how Tony-nominated "Purpose" is in dialogue with Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun." ...

‘A Raisin in the Sun’ comes home to the South Side at UChicago’s Court Theatre Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent talks directing the famed play and the 'magic of the South Side' Kierra ...

The iconic 1959 play A Raisin In The Sun, which follows the Youngers, a black family trying to move from a tenement in the Chicago’s South Side to a working class white neighborhood, seems ripe ...