3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere 4 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 15 To open Season 19 at TheatreSquared, 477 W. Spring St, in Fayetteville, this amazing gem has ...
4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere They're wrong about our beginnings. We are not born alone, we are born from mothers. And their mothers, and theirs. Sixty-five years later, A RAISIN ...
“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 that ...
Sound is such an important ingredient in any live theater performance, almost more so than the actors themselves. That’s why it’s disappointing that so many of Lorraine Hansberry’s wondrous words from ...
How affecting it is to watch a great American play hang its hat on the exquisite melancholy of a single verb. But there it is, in the first lines of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, “A Raisin in ...
The boy named Travis is asleep on the couch. Bodies occupy almost every available space in the cramped apartment. The bathroom is way down the hall. The sound and sights of Chicago’s roiling South ...
“A Raisin in the Sun” is directed by Tyrone Beasley, center, who is a newcomer to the Omaha Community Playhouse despite his years in Omaha theater. There are some new faces onstage in “A Raisin in the ...
“What happens to a dream deferred?” poet Langston Hughes wrote. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” In South Coast Repertory’s best production since the pandemic, a new mounting of Lorraine ...
RED BANK -- In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" rocked the theater world with its realist vision of black American life and uncompromising examination of the complex humans at its ...
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When Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” opened in 1959, Broadway had never seen anything like it. The lives of Black people crowded into substandard urban housing and struggling to ascend ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not. By Jesse Green Leaving ...