When this Lorraine Hansberry drama first appeared on Broadway in 1959 it created a stir, for it was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on the main stem. Later that season Ms. Hansberry became the youngest American playwright, the fifth woman and the first African-American to win the Drama Critics Circle […] The post Denzel Williams and company shine in A Raisin in the Sun appeared first …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:28AM on April 7, 2014