“Because of Lorraine Hansberry, I got my professional union ... It’s profound, the power of that one little play.” Finister was among the third wave of actors who joined People’s Light ...

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.

The 2021 Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world's most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be awarded to Rachel Lynett for her play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry (You Too August Wilson).

With two plays by Lorraine Hansberry being staged in 2016, Philip Dodd looks at her writing talking to directors Yael Farber, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Dawn Walton. Show more With two plays by Lorraine ...

George Monbiot. As Radio 3 broadcasts Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as the Sunday Drama hear theatre directors Kwame Kwei-Armah, Yael Farber and Dawn Walton and historians Kit Davis ...