Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, a Pulitzer Prize, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry鈥檚 A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family鈥檚 fight for dignity and the right to dream.
As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch鈥檚 life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life 鈥� a life with room to breathe 鈥� until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry鈥檚 language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes鈥檚 question, What happens to a dream deferred?
Staged sixty years after Lorraine Hansberry鈥檚 passing, Associate Artistic Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry鈥檚 masterpiece home to Chicago鈥檚 vibrant South Side and Court鈥檚 stage for the very first time.
Directed by Gabrielle Randle-Bent
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