A Raisin in the Sun
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 26, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
Opened Apr 26, 2004
Closed Jul 11, 2004
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Running Time:
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
2hr. 30min.
(includes 1 intermission)
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Winner of two 2004 Tony Awards for Featured Actress in a Play (Audra McDonald) and Leading Actress in a Play (Phylicia Rashad).
Sean Combs (a.k.a. "P. Diddy"), Audra McDonald and Phylicia Rashad star in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play A Raisin in the Sun. Kenny Leon directs.
The play tells the story of three generations of a family living and struggling together under one roof. The Youngers - Mama, her children Beneatha and Walter Lee, and his wife Ruth and their son, Travis - live on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. It is a place in which dreams, like the raisin in the Langston Hughes' poem from which the play takes its title, wither and die if nothing is done with them.
Also the recipient of 2004 Drama Desk Awards for the performances by McDonald and Rashad.
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The first thing to say about Kenny Leon's exhilarating revival of A Raisin in the Sun is: Book tickets immediately and then read this account of the production's overflowing marvels.
Okay, now that you're back, don't expect to be told that this is a perfect realization of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama about the noisy clash of deferred dreams in Lena Younger's cramped Southside Chicago apartment, where the matriarchal cleaning lady (Phylicia Rashad) and her brood are trying to make the most of limited circumstances and long-occupied surroundings. That brood consists of Lena's daughter Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan), who hopes to become a doctor, and son Walter Lee (Sean Combs), a chauffeur, plus [...]