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      • While A Raisin in the Sun is very much of its moment, it has also proven to be for all time; its relevance to modern life, its perpetual popularity, is attested to by the fact that it has continued over three and a half decades to be given important and innovative new productions. It has established itself as an American classic.
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  2. Oct 25, 2022 · Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not. From left: Mandi Masden, Francois Battiste, Tonya Pinkins and ...

  3. Apr 1, 1995 · Author. Guides. Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her ...

  4. Apr 21, 2014 · Marital tensions flare between Denzel Washington’s Walter Lee and Sophie Okonedo’s Ruth with a true-to-life familiarity recognizable by anyone who’s walked down the aisle. Walter Lee’s ...

  5. Oct 15, 2009 · A Raisin in the Sun was written over fifty years ago, but it remains vivid and relevant today. Though the final act is weakened by a sequence of preachy, 1950s-style dramatic speeches, in...

  6. Aug 22, 1995 · This is the most complete edition of A Raisin in the Sun ever published. Like the American Playhouse production for television, it restores to the play two scenes unknown to the general public, and a number of other key scenes and passages staged for the first time in twenty-fifth anniversary revivals and, most notably, the Roundabout Theatre's ...

  7. Mar 28, 2016 · BBC World Service. Lorraine Hansberry is famous for writing a classic piece of modern American drama - A Raisin in the Sun - but she wrote more radical plays too, and London's National Theatre...

  8. Indeed Lorraine Hansberrys award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America–and changed American theater forever.

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