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Set on Chicago's South Side, A Raisin In The Sun revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee (Denzel Washington), his wife ...
Finally, someone gets “A Raisin ... even its original cast members. In 2004, I interviewed Ossie Davis shortly after the opening of the 2004 Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun ...
In 1993, Melanye Finister played Beneatha Younger in People’s Light & Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun. More than 30 ... actor Sidney Poitier, the original Walter Lee Younger — sits ...
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 ...
Even as you walk into the Court Theatre, you know that the director Gabrielle Randle-Bent and her designer, Andrew Boyce, understand “A Raisin in the Sun,” the greatest play ever written by a ...
MALVERN, PA (WPVI) -- People's Light is presenting 'A Raisin in the Sun.' "It's a beautiful play about dreams," says Eric B. Robinson, Jr., who plays Walter Lee Younger in the production.
In 1961, a film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” was released, featuring its original Broadway cast: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr. and ...
WHAT DO YOU THINK SETS THIS VERSION OF RAISIN IN THE SUN APART FROM OTHERS? PERHAPS? YEAH. SO TO BE CLEAR, IT’S THE ORIGINAL PLAY THAT LORRAINE HANSBERRY WROTE BACK IN 1959. AND WHAT WE ARE ...
Rodrigues, Valyn Lyric Turner, Damon Singletary and Jon Vellante in New Rep's production of "A Raisin in the Sun." (Courtesy Ken Yotsukura Photography) Something is eating at Walter Lee Younger.