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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.
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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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Lorraine Hansberry Sculpture To Be Permanently Installed At Chicago's Navy Pier
The sculpture will be a permanent installation and a gift from the Lorraine Hansberry Initiative to Navy Pier and the city of Chicago, Hansberry's birthplace. “Navy Pier is thrilled to have been ...
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'A Raisin in the Sun': Court Theatre's strong cast drives play that's powerful and sadly topical
Michael Brosilow Share It’s been almost 66 years since South Side native Lorraine Hansberry’s Chicago-set “A Raisin in the Sun” debuted on Broadway, yet the simultaneously classic and ...
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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.