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24 de abr. de 2024 · A Raisin in the Sun is a drama in three acts by Lorraine Hansberry, first published and produced in 1959. The play’s title is taken from ‘Harlem,’ a poem by Langston Hughes. The play is a penetrating psychological study of a working-class Black family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1940s.
7 de mai. de 2024 · Hansberry was the youngest American, fifth woman and first black to win the award. A Raisin in the Sun marked the turning point for black artists in professional theater. It took about a year for producers Philip Rose and David Cogan to raise enough money from 150 investors to finance the play.
Há 13 horas · Eight years later, in February, 2018, Fair died from a a cerebral hemorrhage. He was 86. According to his widow Hannele, though he stopped publishing, Ronald L. Fair never stopped writing. “I have many of his unpublished manuscripts with me that deserve to be published,” she wrote Cecil Brown in 2018.
19 de abr. de 2024 · This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Guide to resources from the Library and outside the Library to guide students in their study of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
19 de abr. de 2024 · Research Guides. ENGL 110 (Woltag): A Raisin in the Sun. An Interview with Lorraine Hansberry. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry discusses her play "A Raisin in the Sun" and theater in general; last 10 minutes is a reading of "Chicago: South Side Summers" from "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black." Original air date is 05/12/1959 (opens in a new window)
1 de mai. de 2024 · ByRobert Loerzel. February 26, 2019. Without question, Lorraine Hansberry ’s A Raisin in the Sun is one of the most important plays ever written about Chicago. Emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative, it vividly shows an African-American family’s struggles to escape the shackles of segregation on the city’s South Side.
