First produced on Broadway in 1959 and recognized as a classic today, Lorraine Hansberry's play about a black family seeking its way up the ladder of success to achieve the American Dream ca…
Denzel Washington, who won a Tony Award for his performance in the revival of August Wilson's Fences, may be heading back to Broadway.
Denzel Washington, who was last seen on Broadway in Fences, winning a 2010 Tony Award, has been telling the press in interviews that he was headed back to the stage in 2014. Now, Michael Rie…
November 11, 2012 by Wade W.TeacherNew Leadership Charter SchoolSpringfield, MA A special thanks to the Playhouse for bringing not only amazing art, but amazingly *relevant* art to the…
Phylicia Rashad and the cast she directs have superlative material to work with, but they find new richness in the relationships and individual hearts of the Younger family in "A Raisin in t…
An introduction to the play, with interviews with Phylicia Rashad, the actors, and a number of scholars of Lorraine Hansberry and African American literature. This video guide includes comme…
While most of America knows Phylicia Rashad for her television work " from playing Clair Huxtable opposite Bill Cosby's Cliff on the long-running NBC hit show, The Cosby Show, to her recent …
This timeless classic tells the story of the Youngers, a black family in 1950s Southside Chicago, and their quest for a piece of the American Dream. A towering drama of passionate intensity …
The show:  "A Raisin the Sun" at Westport Country Playhouse
Westport Country Playhouse presents Lorraine Hansberrys landmark drama, A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad. Get a first look at the production in the photos b…
October 11, 2012By Angela Marroy BoergerEducation & Community Programs CoordinatorLuka Kain, Lynda Gravatt & Susan Kelechi WatsonPhoto by T. Charles EricksonOver the next three weeks…
Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, who starred in the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, stages that Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Lorraine Hansberry for the Westport Country Pl…
October 5, 2012We're mere days away from the first performance of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Phylicia Rashad. Take a sneak peek below at this amazing product…
A RAISIN IN THE SUN at Westport Playhouse, directed by Phylicia Rashad From: WestportPlayhouse Views: 4 0 ratings Time: 02:47 More in Entertainment
Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, who starred in the 2004 revival of A Raisin in the Sun, will direct the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Lorraine Hansberry for the Westport Countr…
Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad will direct Westport Country Playhouse's closing production of its 2012 season, Lorraine Hansberry's classic A Raisin in the Sun, October 9 " November 3.Set…
The mostly white and young audience gave a rousing, standing ovation at the end of CLYBOURNE PARK at the Walter Kerr Theatre where it has recently opened after its original incarnation at Pl…
Playwright Bruce Norris wants to annoy us. He wants to rile us up over what has happened in Clybourne Park over the years.
African-American Shakespeare Company has announced that it will replace its previously reported production of playwright and actress Nambi E. Kelley's Xtigone with Lorraine Hansberry&ap…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced the winners and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2011. The 43rd Annual Los Angeles Drama…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle handed out its annual awards at a ceremony Monday at A Noise Within in Pasadena. The evening's biggest winners were "Margo Veil," a new play by Len Jenki…
Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012-13 season will include the musicals Assassins, Ring of Fire, Blues in the Night and Gutenberg!; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop, a fantastical look a…
The Gallery Players has announced casting for its upcoming production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, to run March 17-April 1. Reginald L. Douglas will direct. Set on Ch…
Los Angeles Times 02/05/12
Bruce Norris' play revisits 'Raisin's' neighborhood, but the state of African Americans is unfortunately left out of the conversation.In the program for "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' Pulit…