Sunday, March 29, 2026
Spring shows include powerful and inspiring performances of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ‘Come From Away,’ and ‘A Raisin in the Sun.'
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 02:51PMFriday, March 27, 2026
STC's 2026-2027 season will also include Brian Cox in The Score, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and more.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:55PMShows include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Follies, A Raisin in the Sun, Romeo and Juliet, and Frida…A Self-Portrait Full Six-Play Season Subscriptions are now on sale. Washington, D.C. (…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 12:13PMFriday, March 6, 2026
A trio of shows on the indoor Bowmer stage – "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Come From Away," and "A Raisin in the Sun" – kick things off starting March 13.
SOURCE: Oregon ArtsWatch at 09:00AMTuesday, February 24, 2026
An adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” “Beneath The Sun” was an ambitious offering from the promising new company, Moore Contemporary Theatrics. It was led by…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:00PMFriday, February 13, 2026
In honor of Black History Month, Broadway.com is celebrating some of the theater industry’s most influential Black artists. We invited actors who are currently on Broadway to tell us abou…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:12PMFriday, February 6, 2026
For every well-known showcase of Black Broadway – “Porgy and Bess,” 1935; “A Raisin in the Sun” 1959; last year’s “Purpose,” winner of both the Tony and Pulitzer — there ar…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PMThursday, January 15, 2026
Tickets are now on sale for The Balusters, a raucous comedy by David Lindsay-Abaire about a neighborhood dispute that escalates into an epic showdown. Performances begin March 31, with openi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMSaturday, October 18, 2025
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo’s "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMThursday, September 25, 2025
"Big White Fog," to which "A Raisin in the Sun" owes much, provides an invaluable snapshot of a community struggling with its own identity.
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMMonday, July 7, 2025
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival stages A Raisin in the Sun to powerful effect, even if the production finds itself occasionally out of step. Kiran Pandey reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PMFriday, May 30, 2025
The Emmy-winning writer-actor Lena Waithe (“The Chi,” “Master of None”) recently sat down with the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, �…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
Audra McDonald and Jake Gyllenhaal are playing iconic villains on Broadway, and when the two actors meet up before a Friday evening performance, they bond over their refusal to view their ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, April 3, 2025
PLAYBILL.COM. On April 3, 2014, A Starry Revival of A Raisin in the Sun, Starring Denzel Washington, Opened on Broa... The starry cast also ...
SOURCE: Google at 10:48PMThe starry cast also included LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Anika Noni Rose.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AMFriday, March 21, 2025
Headlong, has announced that their fresh new staging of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Tinuke Craig, is now available to stream on Digital Theatre+
SOURCE: theatreweekly.com at 06:49AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
Starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee, it was the first play by a Black woman to premiere on Broadway. WomensHistoryMonth playbill.com/artic… Look Back ...
SOURCE: Google at 12:06AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
Hansberry's seminal drama about the experiences of a Black family in Chicago opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:18PMMonday, February 24, 2025
A Raisin in the Sun Playbill - Opening Night, A Raisin in the Sun Opened April 03, 2014. as Walter Lee Younger (Original) ; The 64th Annual Tony Awards ...
SOURCE: Google at 04:02PMLorraine Hansberry’s enduring classic A Raisin in the Sun returns to People’s Light in an entertaining but uneven production starring longtime company member Melanye Finister. Cameron Ke…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:57PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
Melanye Finister shares her artistic journey, her experiences at People’s Light, and her role in the upcoming production of A Raisin in the Sun.
The post The Heart of the Family: Melanye F…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:33PMMonday, February 17, 2025
The sixtieth anniversary of the death of playwright Lorraine Hansberry is the catalyst for the first-ever Court Theatre production of “A Raisin in the Sun.” The Chicago-born Hansberry wa…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose and Aisha Jackson will lead the Encores! production of Wonderful Town as sisters Ruth and Eileen. The show will run at New York City Center from April 30…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PMMonday, December 9, 2024
LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young are among the complete cast announced today for the Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ pla…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PMFriday, November 8, 2024
Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston in “August: Osage Country” (2008).November 8, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
In New York City this week, an unseasonably warm Novemb…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:06AMSunday, October 13, 2024
Lorraine Hansberry classic is both a historical gem and a play for today
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is not only the first play by a black woman to premiere on Broadway, back…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:02PMFriday, October 11, 2024
The Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder‘s “Our Town” opened Oct. 10 to rave reviews. This imaginative restaging of this American classic by Tony-winning director Kenny Leon (“A Raisi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:43AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?” These three stanzas that open Langston Hughes’ poem, “A Dream Deferred,” are imbued in Lorraine Hansber…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AMThursday, September 19, 2024
Leeds Playhouse Revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s play follows a family struggling against the odds and delivers a message of hope
When Lorraine Hansberry’s debut play premiered in 1959, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMWednesday, September 4, 2024
The Broadway revival of Shakespeare’s Othello, starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, will play the Barrymore Theatre. Performances will begin on February 24, 2025 with an offi…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PMFriday, August 16, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: She won your heart as Lottie Gee, Billie Holliday, and Bess (and that's been just the past few years). Audra McDonald has grown to be perhaps the greatest tale…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:36AMWednesday, August 14, 2024
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, written by Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, The Comeuppance), and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Meet the younger Youngers of A Raisin in the Sun! In this video, Toussaint Battiste and Camden McKinnon tell us all about playing Travis Younger off Broadway at…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:11PMSunday, July 14, 2024
Playbill.com offers a behind-the-scenes look at opening night of the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Article | By Michael Gioia | ...
SOURCE: Google at 11:18AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Bruce Norris Updates “A Raisin in the Sun” with Wit & Wisdom by Lynne Stevens Using Lorraine Hansberry’s classic 1959 play about racial prejudice in Chicago as inspiration, Bruce N…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 06:35PMSunday, June 16, 2024
Nikiya Mathis accepts her 2024 Special Tony Award.
Nikiya Mathis is a multi hyphenate hair/wig designer and a classically trained actress, who holds an MFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:15PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: As announced earlier this evening, Sophie Okonedo has won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for A Raisin in th…
SOURCE: YouTube at 10:36PMSaturday, June 1, 2024
From BroadwayWorld's Archive: New York City Center will soon kick off the 2022 Encores! Season on February 2 - 6 with The Tap Dance Kid, featuring music by Henry Krieger, lyrics by Robert Lo…
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:42PMMonday, May 13, 2024
The fourth annual Broadway Celebrates Juneteenth Concert will take place in Times Square on June 19 and honor the actress Phylicia Rashad. The free event, hosted by Michael James Scott, will…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:54PMFriday, April 26, 2024
Purlie Victorious is a comedy about a Black preacher’s scheme to reclaim his inheritance and win back his church from a plantation owner. Written by Kennedy Center honoree Ossie Davis with…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:12AM 
