March 14, 2013
ThirdCoast Digest
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun first appeared at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. Its mere production was groundbreaking enough, as the first Broadway play written by a black woman, with an almost-entirely black cast. But Raisin is no mere historical footnote: almost immediately, the play received massive critical acclaim, and is today seen as one of the greatest plays in the American canon, listed in the same breath as Death of a Salesman or The Glass Menagerie.
More than 50 years later, director Ron OJ Parson hopes to resurrect that same spirit at the Milwaukee Rep, with their season-ending production of Hansberry’s famous work.
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