A landmark play by Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun premiered on Broadway in 1959 and is now considered one of the most prolific and important plays of the 20th century.
Lorraine Hansberry was born in 1930 in South Side, Chicago. Her first play, A Raisin in the Sun, opened in March 1959 and made history as the first production written by a female Black author to be staged on Broadway. Hansberry was the youngest and the first Black recipient of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. She committed her life to the Black struggle for equality and human rights until her early death in 1965 at the age of 34.
A Raisin in the Sun was a revelation to me. It's still fresh. It is
still relevant. Lorraine Hansberry was a visionary.
*Spike Lee*
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