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Arts in the Armed Forces, Inc. (AITAF) was a non-profit based in Brooklyn, New York that brings arts programming to active-duty service members, veterans, military support staff of the United States and their families around the world free of charge. [1] The organization was founded by actors Adam Driver and Joanne Tucker in 2006.
Robert B. Nemiroff (October 29, 1929, New York City [1] – July 18, 1991) was an American theater producer and songwriter, and the husband of Lorraine Hansberry. [1]Nemiroff was a book editor and a music publisher, as well as an award-winning songwriter.
Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first with a black director, Richards. [7] Waiting for the curtain to rise on opening night, Hansberry and producer Rose did not expect the play to be a success, for it had received mixed reviews from a preview audience the night before.
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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.
A Raisin in the Sun, from left, Louis Gossett Jr, Ruby Dee, and Sidney Poitier.. A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn, and Louis Gossett Jr. (in his film debut), and based on the 1959 play of the same name by Lorraine Hansberry.
The River Raisin Centre for the Arts purchased a 165-year-old Washington Street building for its dance, music and other classes.
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)