As soon as the curtain came down, the 1959 audience at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre spontaneously rose to give the cast of A Raisin in the Sun –the story of the Black Younger family living in ...

This documentary, narrated by actress Claudia McNeil, examines the life and work of playwright Lorraine Hansberry. The film focuses on Hansberry's life and how it influenced her most famous work, ...

From L: Brian Keys, Jeremias Darville, Shanésia Davis, and Vincent Teninty in Court Theatre's A Raisin in the Sun Credit: Michael Brosilow Sixty years after her death, Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece ...

A new biography of the African-American playwright shows that she was so much more than her most famous work: A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry: Radiant, Radical — And More Than 'Raisin' You ...