Lorraine Hansberry
Author
Language
English
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Black History Month
Black History Month: Focus on Illinois (SCPL)
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February 2026 | Theater Display (All the World's a Stage)
Black History Month: Focus on Illinois (SCPL)
Chicago Style
February 2026 | Theater Display (All the World's a Stage)
Description
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."
Author
Series
Signet book volume q4339
Language
English
Description
"Originally conceived not in its present form, but as a work for the stage. I completed the first draft of the script ... the play was "postponed" and presently dropped. It was at this point that the idea for the present volume began to take shape. Work on the script had produced a form that seemed to lend itself with equal facility to the printed page, while going far beyond the inherent limitations of the stage. Work on the book and revisions of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Contains a performance of Lorraine Hansberry's play A raisin in the sun; a performance of the play To be young, gifted and Black, which is a dramatized portrait of Hansberry arranged from her writings; and seven of Hansberry's interviews and speeches ranging in topic "from integration to backlash to the greatness and limitations of African-American leadership"--Container
Series
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Language
English
Description
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads where the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Decisions will need to be made on how to best spend the money, from buying a new family home, buying a liquor store or even paying for medical school tuition. While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in...