As I sat house-left in the Court Theatre’s performance of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, waiting for the ...

Lorraine Hansberry was a playwright and activist who attended UW ... she was inspired to write about the lives of African American people. During her time in New York, Hansberry wrote for progressive ...

African-American Shakespeare Company’s annual holiday ... and was mentored by Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Artistic Director ...

Written when she was just twenty-eight, Lorraine Hansberry's landmark A Raisin in the Sun is listed by The National Theatre as one of the hundred most significant works of the twentieth century.