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Lorraine Hansberry Sculpture To Be Permanently Installed At Chicago's Navy Pier
and economic equality going by honoring Lorraine Hansberry. We will add to the growing movement to honor women and people of color with physical monuments. And, we will alleviate the financial ...
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Lorraine Hansberry’s second play had a white Jewish protagonist. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are reviving it.
Anne Kauffman thinks so. She made the comparison in a phone interview about the play she’s directing — a buzzy production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window ...
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Court Theatre’s ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ Honors Lorraine Hansberry’s South Side Tale 60 Years After Her Death
The cast of South and West Side natives brings a fresh "heartbeat" to the Broadway play nearly 70 years after its debut.
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Chicago Black history: Civil rights activist Carl Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was a Chicago playwriting legend. Her father Carl was a real estate broker turned civil rights activist.
'A Raisin in the Sun': Court Theatre's strong cast drives play that's powerful and sadly topical
Brian Keys' Walter builds tension while Shanésia Davis' Lena radiates warmth in the classic South Side story by Lorraine ...
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Lorraine Hansberry
The first African-American woman to have a play staged on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry was a writer who broke down racial and gender barriers.