With previews scheduled to begin March 8, the news that Diahann Carroll—set to star as Lena Younger—was dropping out of the Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” came as a surprise. The Denzel Washington–led production doesn’t necessarily need Carroll’s star power or narrative (this was to be her first return to the Broadway stage since 1983), but theatergoers can’t…
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:00PM on February 13, 2014