That is the word that comes to mind after watching People’s Light’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. As a part of the theater’s 50th anniversary season, the questions of legacy ...

In 1964, “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” shocked critics and fans who expected another Black story following “A Raisin in the Sun.” Anne Kauffman thinks so. She made the ...

Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by The National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century.

Set on Chicago’s South Side, Lorraine Hansberry's celebrated play concerns the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his ...