Tag: Lorraine Hansberry

The production serves as a ceremony, praising the perseverance of the Black American household in a way that allows viewers hope. By ISAAC WELCH

There are hidden gems in this production, which brings an acclaimed African American drama to life. By TENIOLA AYOOLA

Visionaries of the Creative Arts revives its poignant Gallaudet production at Atlas.

Visionaries of the Creative Arts presents Hansberry's classic with a mixed Deaf and hearing cast using multiple forms of signed and spoken communication.

The production combines Lorraine Hansberry’s commentary and the feelings of its characters and cannot but affect the minds and hearts of those who view it.

Two young black men stumble upon an expensively dressed but badly beaten young white woman in the ghetto. What do they do? If it’s...

“I am a giant surrounded by ants!” exclaimed Walter Lee Younger in a scene from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is the embodiment...

At the center of Bruce Norris' tragicomic exploration of American "community" hangs Kenneth (Win Britt), the Korean War Vet who returns home only to...

There is a critical conversation going on in Anacostia right now that may be one of the most  urgent and honest exchanges between black...

There are good reasons why Bruce Norris'  2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Clybourne Park has been staged no less than five times in the past four...

Is a man, especially a black man's ego and position diminished when he, his wife and son, live in cramped quarters with his mother...

Clybourne Park, written by Bruce Norris in 2010 as sequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, is a riveting play that...

There is a shortlist of great American plays about hopes and dreams, wrenching and emotionally exacting dramas exposing the anguish when righteous aspiration is...

I don’t believe He brought me this far (to leave me.) In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was a groundbreaking, electrifying original...

A Then and Now Tour: Clybourne Park at Maryland Ensemble Theatre Taking a modern twist on Lorraine Hansberry’s seminal play, A Raisin in the Sun, Bruce...