Somewhere Lorraine Hansberry must be smiling. When A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1959 on, she was the first black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. There haven't been many others in the five decades since then. The only ones I can think of are Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf in 1976, Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdo…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:39PM on December 21, 2011