About This Show

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In the Sun is directed by Jennifer L. Nelson. Broadway’s longest running Black play has become an American classic and been produced throughout the world. Set in Chicago’s South Side during the 1950s, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams of and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family. Raisin culminates in the family’s triumphant refusal to sacrifice human dignity to the demands of a money-driven racist society.

Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: May 6, 2006 Final Performance: June 11, 2006

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