FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to see the out-of-town tryout of "A Raisin in the Sun" to determine if the play had Communist content. The FBI did not do this with every show that was planning to open on Broadway in 1959, but the author of this one was Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27AM on February 15, 2019