A Raisin in the Sun
Wednesday September 25, 2024 07:30 PM EDT
Cost: $45-$59
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CRITIC’S PICK: A Raisin in the Sun, Theatrical Outfit - The title of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic tale of racial discord and housing discrimination in Chicago’s South Side is based on a poem by Langston Hughes (“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”), and the story concerns a struggling family aiming for a better life and improved living conditions amidst impossible odds. It’s inspired by the playwright’s own experiences in the 1930s.‘Raisin in the Sun’ opened on Broadway in 1959, the first piece written by a Black woman to be produced there, and featured an entirely Black cast with Sidney Poitier in the lead role of Walter Lee Younger; Poitier repeated the part in the 1961 film version, for which Hansberry provided the screenplay. The play gets a redo from Theatrical Outfit this month, with Robert John Connor directing an all-Atlanta cast. - Kevin C. Madigan
From the venue:
Lorraine Hansberry’s A RAISIN IN THE SUN comes to Atlanta with a fresh look at an American classic that proves to be as provocative and powerful today as it was in 1959. Lena Younger has decided to use her late husband’s life insurance to move her family out of their cramped apartment on Chicago’s South Side. Her son, Walter Lee, has other ideas. This powerful new co-production fearlessly interrogates the American dream in the face of racial and economic strife.