Lorraine Hansberry only lived long enough to see two of her plays produced. The first was A Raisin in the Sun, celebrated when it opened in 1959 as the first play by an African-American woman to be performed on Broadway and now a revered part of the theatrical canon that has so far had five major revivals here in New York and countless others around the country. The second was The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:44PM on March 4, 2023