![]() Support for The New York Public Library’s Exhibitions Program has been provided by Celeste Bartos, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos Exhibitions Fund, and Jonathan Altman. Lead Sponsor of The New York Public Library’s 2014 flash displays. The New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Division. ![]() Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, 1959. To celebrate this revival, The New York Public Library presents materials from the Lorraine Hansberry Papers held by NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. A scene from the 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sidney Poitier, and Lynn Nottage (below). This spring, A Raisin in the Sun returns to Broadway in a production starring Denzel Washington. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry discusses her play 'A Raisin in the Sun' and theater in general last 10 minutes is a reading of 'Chicago: South Side Summers' from 'To Be Young, Gifted, and Black. ![]() The play focuses on the struggle of a black working class family for a better life in 1950s Chicago. The title of the play is taken from Langston Hughes’s famous poem “Harlem.” ![]() In 1959, 28-year-old Chicago native Lorraine Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for her first play, A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry (1930–1965) was the first African-American playwright to win a Critics’ Circle Award, and A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by an African- American woman to be produced on Broadway. ![]()
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