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A Raisin in the Sun at the Internet Broadway Database; A Raisin in the Sun at Theatricalia.com; Listen to the play online; EDSITEment's lesson Raisin in the Sun the Quest for the American Dream; Text to Text: ‘'A Raisin in the Sun'’ and ‘'Discrimination in Housing Against Nonwhites Persists Quietly'’ from The New York Times
The first line of "Harlem" asks "What happens to a dream deferred?" and the following ten lines work to answer the question. Hughes first asks four questions (such as "Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?"), presents a conjecture ("Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load.") and ends with a final question ("Or does it explode?"). [5]
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) A Raisin in the Sun, screenplay (1961) "On Summer" (essay) (1960) The Drinking Gourd (1960) What Use Are Flowers? (written c. 1962) The Arrival of Mr. Todog – a parody of Waiting for Godot; The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality (1964) [50] The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1965)
The play was adapted from Lorraine's letters, interviews, and journal entries. It begins at the start of Lorraine's life, highlighting her early childhood in a Chicago ghetto to her college years and then later life, including the creation and inspiration for A Raisin in the Sun. Her journey from Chicago to New York was complicated by obstacles ...
Nemiroff devoted much of his life to editing and promoting the work of Hansberry, who had named him as her literary executor. He was the executive producer of the 1989 PBS production of A Raisin in the Sun, [4] and produced and co-wrote the 1973 Broadway musical Raisin, based on A Raisin in the Sun. [5]
Raisin is a musical with music by Judd Woldin, lyrics by Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. It is an adaptation of the Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun; the musical's book was co-written by Hansberry's husband, Robert Nemiroff. The story concerns an African-American family in Chicago in 1951.
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McNeil as Lena Younger in the 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun. In 1961, McNeil recreated her 1959 stage role in the film A Raisin in the Sun and became so identified with the part of the matriarch that she said, “There was a time when I acted the role.…Now I live it.” [ 2 ] New York Times journalist Eric Pace summarized McNeil's ...