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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent

Jan 31, 2025 — Mar 02, 2025

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Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.

As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred?

Staged sixty years after Lorraine Hansberry’s passing, Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.

Accessible Performances:

  • March 1, 2025 at 2:00pm (ASL Interpretation)
  • March 2, 2025 at 2:00pm (Touch Tour/Audio Description/Open Captioning)
    • Touch Tour at 12:30pm

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Leon Savage, Untitled; courtesy of the South Side Community Art Center. A Raisin in the Sun is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com.

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