Lorraine Hansberry

Robert Nemiroff

Includes autobiographical sketches, play excerpts, and poetry from the African American playwright

Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words

To be Young, Gifted, and Black

Judd Woldin

Charlotte Zaltzberg

Robert Brittan

A Musical Based on "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry

Raisin

A Drama in Two Acts

Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans into our national theatrical repertory. Now, Hansberry tells her own life story in an autobiography that rings with the voice of its creator. "Brilliantly alive".--The New York Times.

"Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent can evade the consequences of white colonialism and imperatives of black liberation. Tshembe Matoseh, the English educated son of a chief, has come home to bury his father. He finds his teenage brother a near alcoholic and his older brother a priest and traitor to his people. Forswearing politics and wanting only to return to his wife and child in England, Tshembe is drawn into the conflict symbolized by a woman dancer, the powerful Spirit of Africa who pursues him."--Page 4 of cover.

Discusses the individual's efforts to maintain his dignity and humaneness in alien surroundings

A Raisin in the Sun ; and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Musical Drama / 9m, 6f, chorus and extras / Unit set This winner of Tony and Grammy awards as Best Musical ran for three years on Broadway and enjoyed a record breaking national tour. A proud family's quest for a better life meets conflicts that span three generations and set the stage for a drama rich in emotion and laughter. Taking place on Chicago's Southside, it explodes in song, dance, drama and comedy. "Pure magic ... dazzling! Tremen

Based on Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"

Amiri Baraka

A Raisin In The Sun: An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. -- The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window: A disillusioned intellectual is presuaded to support a local reform candidate whom he eventually learns is corrupt.

Robert Nemiroff

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