Lorraine Hansberry's classic 1959 American drama A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to have a Broadway production; it's now the first work by the acclaimed playwright to be presented at Off-Broadway's The Public Theater. Inspired by her father's 1940 lawsuit against racially restrictive housing covenants in Chicago, […]
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:13PM on October 28, 2022