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9 de jul. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died January 12, 1965, New York, New York) was an American playwright whose A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway.
- A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun is a drama in three acts by Lorraine...
- A Raisin in the Sun
Hace 5 horas · Entre sus amigos de aquella época estaba la dramaturga Lorraine Hansberry —a quien Nina Simone dedicó To Be Young, Gifted, and Black—, o el abogado y activista gay afroamericano Bayard ...
15 de jul. de 2024 · That woman was Lorraine Hansberry, a writer who, in 1959, would make history as the first Black American woman to have a play on Broadway with A Raisin in the Sun.
Hace 6 días · 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.
Hace 1 día · A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about a family struggling with poverty and discrimination. It was the first play by a Black woman on Broadway when it was staged in 1959. At 29, Hansberry was the youngest American playwright to win New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It was later acclaimed by the New York Times as ...
17 de jul. de 2024 · Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a remarkable endeavor to articulate the author’s own traumatic childhood experience, as well as the broader trauma of African American people who have suffered so long because of slavery and its aftermath.
Hace 3 días · Leeds Playhouse have today released initial casting and full creatives for their fresh new staging of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Tinuke Craig (Trouble in Butetown, Jitney, Crave, The Color Purple).. The Playhouse will join forces with leading theatre companies Headlong, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse for this new and contemporary staging which ...
