'Raisin in the Sun' a triumph at TimeLine

It was in 1959 when Chicago-bred playwright Lorraine Hansberry, just 29, saw her career-making work, "A Raisin in the Sun," become the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on Broadway. She died of cancer just five years later. Watching "A Raisin in the Sun" now, particularly the volcanic production that opened Wednesday at TimeLine Theatre under the stellar direction of OJ Parson, you can only weep …

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