As soon as the curtain came down, the 1959 audience at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre spontaneously rose to give the cast of A Raisin in the Sun –the story of the Black Younger family living in ...

The second Broadway play by the 'A Raisin in the Sun' scribe is a response to both her communities and her critics — past and present — who presumed to know who she was and what she could creatively ...

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window—Lorraine Hansberry’s second play produced for the New York stage—will return to Broadway this spring for the first time in nearly 60 years. After ending its ...

The ‘Raisin in the Sun’ playwright is honored for her work and support of the LGBTQ+ community The New York City home of indelible playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry is now officially listed ...

American Masters is honored to receive a 2018 Peabody Award for Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart for excellence in documentary filmmaking. As part of the Peabody 30, these programs were ...

Whenever Black History Month rolls around, there is often a focus on the palatable histories of mainstream civil rights leaders. Whether they are depictions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that laud ...

Lorraine Hansberry was enigmatic and prolific, a radical who shook up the literary world Tonight on PBS, the new American Masters documentary Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart will see ...

After playwright Lorraine Hansberry rocketed to stardom in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, she followed it up, five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. The show had a short Broadway ...

Historian Imani Perry looks beyond Hansberry's artistic genius to her involvement in several movements — civil rights, LGBTQ rights, anti-colonialism — ahead of the popular curve. When the playwright ...

Since early April, when the great literary critic and English professor Cheryl A. Wall died, I have been thinking about the last book she published, “On Freedom and the Will to Adorn,” about the ...