Comments on: On Today: A Raisin In The Sun Opened On Broadway

By: A Raisin in the Sun at Harlem Repertory Theatre

A Raisin in the Sun at Harlem Repertory Theatre — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:37:56 +0000

[…] its Broadway debut in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun has become one of the perennial favorites of Black theatre, with two Broadway revivals, a film, a […]

By: Wallis Kicks Off Season With Denzel Washington Livestream

Wallis Kicks Off Season With Denzel Washington Livestream — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:36:40 +0000

[…] year, he also motivated young aspiring actors during his 2014 stint in the Kenny Leon-directed A Raisin in the Sun to pursue goals not just dreams and to have discipline and […]

By: Sophie Okonedo Leads the New Broadway Revival of The Crucible

Sophie Okonedo Leads the New Broadway Revival of The Crucible — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:31:55 +0000

[…] Crucible is coming back to Broadway and Tony Award winner Sophie Okonedo (A Raisin in the Sun) was recently announced to take the lead as “Elizabeth Proctor”. The highly popular […]

By: Project1VOICE Presents 1VOICE/1PLAY/1DAY on June 15

Project1VOICE Presents 1VOICE/1PLAY/1DAY on June 15 — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:17:57 +0000

[…] Project1Voice is also doing Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf. The piece is a series of twenty poems that are choreographed to music (hence, “choreopoem”) performed by seven African American women that are only named by the color that they are assigned. The subject matter includes abandonment, rape, abortion, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS. This play first debuted on Broadway in 1976 and Shange was the second African American woman playwright to be produced on Broadway, second only to Lorraine Hansberry with A Raisin in the Sun. […]