A RAISIN IN THE SUN
BY LORRAINE HANSBERRY
DIRECTED BY ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR GABRIELLE RANDLE-BENT
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.
As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred?
Staged sixty years after Lorraine Hansberry’s passing, Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.
Leon Savage, Untitled; courtesy of the South Side Community Art Center.
A Raisin in the Sun is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.
A Raisin in the Sun is sponsored by Gustavo Bamberger and Martha Van Haitsma, Bel Brands USA , MESIROW , and The Marion M. Lloyd Court Theatre Fund.
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