by Paula Kaplan-Reiss Lorraine Hansberry, the first black woman to have a play on Broadway in 1959, wrote A Raisin in the Sun, depicting a poor black family on the Southside of Chicago, wrestling with how to spend a $10,000 life insurance check left by the late Walter Lee Younger,…
by Macey Levin When entering the Sharon Playhouse to see Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic A Raisin in the Sun the audience is guided to stairs leading up to the stage. Seating is on four bleachers toward the rear of the stage and the set occupies the rest of the playing…
by Barbara Waldinger What is the purpose of producing a classic play that has already been revived many times onstage and on film? Some people say that it’s to give a new generation of theatregoers the opportunity to see an important work. Others insist that it’s to give a director…
A RAISIN IN THE SUN By Lorraine Hansberry Directed by Robert O’Hara Featuring Francois Battiste and S. Epatha Merkerson Lorraine Hansberry’s fearless interrogation of hope in the face of racial and economic strife in America is as powerful today as when it premiered 60 years ago on Broadway. JUNE 25 – JULY 13 |  MAIN…
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July, 1999 “What happens to a dreamdeferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?”– Langston Hughes “Harlem [2]” Lorraine Hansberry was 26 when she started writing “A Raisin in the Sun”. At 29 she was the first female black playwright to have her work…
