The cast of South and West Side natives brings a fresh "heartbeat" to the Broadway play nearly 70 years after its debut.

She made the comparison in a phone interview about the play she’s directing — a buzzy production of Lorraine Hansberry ... Zero Mostel.” Hansberry saw just two of her works produced ...

The artists spoke to LGBTQ Nation about the mentors who inspired them to show up for the Black queer community.

Lorraine Hansberry was a Chicago playwriting legend. Her father Carl was a real estate broker turned civil rights activist. “A Raisin in the Sun” is a Chicago classic. The play by Lorainne ...

Additional, independent local programming honoring Hansberry's life and work will be hosted by Court Theatre from July 31-August 2 (Spotlight Reading Series: A Tribute to Lorraine Hansberry).

Michael Brosilow Share It’s been almost 66 years since South Side native Lorraine Hansberry’s Chicago-set “A Raisin in the Sun” debuted on Broadway, yet the simultaneously classic and ...

Bent, Court’s Theatre’s senior artistic producer, realized last season that the theater had never produced anything written ...

[And] Black roles in politics and academia,” says Hall, artistic director of San Francisco’s Lorraine Hansberry Theatre ... are commissioned to write a new work as the mentors guide them ...