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A Raisin in the Sun

By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Ron Himes

Langston Hughes wrote, “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking masterpiece has pondered that question on stages worldwide since its debut in 1959 and is still as vital and compelling today. The divergent dreams of the three generations of an African-American family, living together in a small apartment on Chicago’s South Side, begin to clash when a large insurance settlement arrives in the mail. Tensions increase as their individual aspirations to make a better life are tested by an outside world of racism and economic discrimination, threatening to rip apart their family forever.