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WBTT Presents 'A Raisin In The Sun'
Weekly Challenger
The latest being the stage version of Lorraine Hansberry's play “A Raisin in the Sun” which debuted on Broadway on March 11, 1959. The title comes from the poem “Harlem” also known as “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. Running for nearly two years, ...


 
Geva tackles 'Raisin in the Sun'
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Pre-production pics for A Raisin in the Sun at Geva. Pictured are Lynda Gravatt, Daphne Gaines and Bowman Wright. / Chris Holden Lena Younger is the matriarch of an African-American family of five living in a cramped, roach-infested apartment on the ...


 
Daily Trojan Online
Play provides social commentary on race
Daily Trojan Online
By giovanni osorio · Daily Trojan Societal critique · Jeremy Shamos (left), Annie Parisse (center) and Brendan Griffin (right) offer exceptional performances in Clybourne Park, the follow-up play to A Raisin in the Sun, which confronts racism in the ...
A Central ParkPhiladelphia Citypaper

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Orlando Sentinel
A Raisin in the Sun Review
University at Buffalo The Spectrum
The unique stage setting and powerful performances from the actors make the Subversive Theatre Collective's production of A Raisin in the Sun one to remember. Nothing quite sets the tone of American hardship than Lorraine Hansberry's iconic play of a ...
Southside Theatre Guild presents 'A Raisin In The Sun'The Citizen.com
Valencia College presents 'A Raisin in the Sun'Orlando Sentinel
Provocative play explores raceDaily Trojan Online

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Los Angeles Times
Perspective: The divergence of 'Clybourne Park,' 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Los Angeles Times
The cachet of "Raisin in the Sun" in 1959 was its POV. Hansberry was young, black, female and middle class — an almost inconceivable demographic at the time — who was writing as the civil rights movement was getting seriously underway.
Clybourne Park and A Raisin in the Sun at CTGLA Weekly
A Raisin in the Sun ReduxSanta Barbara Independent
STAGE TUBE: Phylicia Rashad on Directing A RAISIN IN THE SUNBroadway World
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All in the Dysfunctional Family
LA Downtown News Online
The 1953 work A Raisin in the Sun is seen as a classic. Frank D. Gilroy's 1964 The Subject Was Roses retains a punch, and was mounted in 2010 at the Mark Taper Forum. The long list goes on and on. Thus, it's no surprise that Downtown-based Company of ...


 
Perserverance Theatre makes foray to Anchorage with The Blue Bear
Anchorage Press
Perseverance's second show in its Anchorage season will be "A Raisin in the Sun" April 13-22. (Photo courtesy of Perseverence Theatre.) While rehearsing at Out North last week, the two-man cast of The Blue Bear pounded out lines and worked on small ...

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