Monday, October 5, 2026
The Broadway cast of the Pulitzer Prize finalist play, Here There Are Blueberries, is set. It begins performances at the Barrymore Theatre on November 2, with an official opening night on No…
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The complete ensemble cast has b…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:28AM[SHARE]EXCLUSIVE: Here There Are Blueberries, the acclaimed play and Pulitzer finalist by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, has found its lead cast for its limited run on Broadway, producers anno…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 4, 2026
The cast and creative team are complete for the upcoming off-Broadway production of Seven Guitars, directed Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who won a Tony Award for appearing in the original producti…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2026
Tony Award winner Joshua Henry (Ragtime, Hamilton, The Scottsboro Boys) and Julia Harriman (National Tour: Hamilton; Concept Album: Warriors) have conceived, co-written and will star in The …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
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EMMY, GRAMMY AND SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER. Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The wi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:35PM[SHARE]📅 Tuesday, May 19 at 7 PM
EMMY, GRAMMY AND SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER. Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The wi…
SOURCE: YouTube at 07:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19 at 7 PM
EMMY, GRAMMY AND SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER. Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:40PM[SHARE]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 02:51PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 12:55PM[SHARE]Shows 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 12:13PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 choreogra…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 03:12PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 are little-remembere…
SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 03:00PM[SHARE]Friday, 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, "Purpose,…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 10:48PM[SHARE]The starry cast also included LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Anika Noni Rose.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, 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 06:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 12:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:02PM[SHARE]Lorraine 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 Kelsal…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Fin…
SOURCE: phindie.com at 05:33PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 was th…
SOURCE: www.newcitystage.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 Ap…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, 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' play Pu…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 10:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 i…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:02PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 Raisin in the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 Hansberry's play,…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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, it ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, 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 ta…
SOURCE: YouTube at 09:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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…
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