That is the word that comes to mind after watching People’s Light’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. As a part of the theater’s 50th anniversary season, the ...

During Black History Month, social justice artist Tonika Johnson is honoring playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who shattered barriers as the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway.

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.