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'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 ...
Dayton Theatre Guild opens their 25/26 season with Lorraine Hansberry's timeless drama, A Raisin in the Sun. This American ...
“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 ...
“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.
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.
Last Friday I saw A Raisin in the Sun directed by Robert O’Hara at the Public Theater in New York City. A new friend, Tanaïs (who won the Kirkus Prize in nonfiction this week for her gorgeous ...
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.
Theater & Dance The play that ‘Raisin in the Sun’ overshadowed finally gets its due. Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” is being staged at the Brooklyn Academy ...
Waithe and Jacobs-Jenkins discuss how Tony-nominated "Purpose" is in dialogue with Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun." ...
Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.
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 ...