The reluctant poster boy Jul 23, 2009
Man Gone Down is rife with quotations from the poetry of T.S. Eliot, and references to F.Scott Fitzgerald and Moby-Dick mingle with allusions to the work of Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. The novel's title reflects Thomas's broad interests and erudition. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Judi Ann Mason, 54; playwright who wrote for television, films Jul 17, 2009
As a playwright, she wrote more than 25 produced plays, including A Star Ain t Nothin but a Hole in Heaven, which won the first Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award in 1977 for best student-written plays. Her play Daughters of the Mock - a south Louisiana-set story about a mock curse that a Creole grandmother has passed down from generation to generation to protect the family s women from abusive men - was first produced by the Negro Ensemble Co. in New York City in 1978 and has been performed... (Boston Globe)
CSU arts fest director revels in 'world's best job' Jun 28, 2009
The play: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. The plot: Set in Chicago's South Side during the 1950s, three generations of the Younger family fight for, and dream of, a better life. (Fresno Bee)
RAMONA QUIMBY, The World's Most Lovable Third-Grader, Comes to Children's Theatre Company Apr 10, 2009
Davis has guest lectured and directed at Juilliard, Dartmouth, Yale, Brandeis and Howard Universities; was the first Lorraine Hansberry Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and, is an associate professor at Colorado College. Scarlett Thompson, who starred in Torch Theaters production of The Miracle Worker, plays Ramona, and Maeve Coleen Moynihan is older sister Beezus Quimby. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Black America's First Mortgage Crisis Mar 12, 2009
Like many people, my first encounter with Lorraine Hansberrys groundbreaking play was through the ... The uncanny thing is that Lorraine Hansberry figured all of this out, and put it center stage in her compelling play, in the tension between the characters (played on stage and screen by Sidney Poitier and Claudia McNeil, who had their own battles about whose play this really was) ... The dramatic wrestling match between the two resulted in a fiercely honest and gripping work of art that may... (Slate)
Today in History - March 11 Mar 12, 2009
In 1959, the Lorraine Hansberry drama "A Raisin in the Sun" opened at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater. In 1965, the Rev. James J. Reeb, a white minister from Boston, died after being beaten by whites during civil rights disturbances in Selma, Ala. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
'A Raisin in the Sun' as timely as ever Mar 11, 2009
When "Raisin in the Sun" opened on March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became not only the first African American woman to have a play on Broadway but the first black writer and, the next year, at 29, the youngest American of any race or gender to win the New York Drama Critics' Circle award for best play. It didn't win any Tonys. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Not in My Backyard Mar 11, 2009
Lorraine Hansberry RELATED TAGS ... Just like Pablo Picasso was moved to paint his classic mural-sized painting after the Nazis savagely bombed the city of Guernica in Spain in 1937, Lorraine Hansberry penned A Raisin in the Sun because of real events, violent and noble ... The true story that inspired the play occurred in 1937 when Lorraine Hansberrys father, the successful Chicago businessman Carl Hansberry, purchased a house restricted to whites by racial covenant in Chicago. (Slate)
Trinity's 'Raisin' draws strength from ensemble cast Feb 11, 2009
The actors begin by assembling onstage to recite the Langston Hughes poem that gave Lorraine Hansberry her title ... A RAISIN IN THE SUN Play by Lorraine Hansberry. (Boston Globe)
Today in History Feb 8, 2009
Thought for Today: "I wish to live because life has with it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love." Lorraine Hansberry, American author and dramatist (1930-1965). Related Searches. (Yahoo News)
