The Village Voice, April 28th, 2004
Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin: Still just as fresh 45 years later
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
By Lorraine Hansberry
Royale Theatre
242 West 45th Street
212.239.6200
What happens to a dream revived? Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 family drama, A Raisin in the Sun, has stood for so many years as a socio-historical icon and aesthetic touchstone-the beginning of black theater as a mainstream force-that one is often tempted to overlook its high standing as a play, a work that has an individuality and power to be relished outside its symbolic status. Hansberry not only crafted her work well, but particulariz...
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