A Raisin in the Sun News

If you have never seen a production of this play written by Lorraine Hansberry, make a point of seeing it because it is a landmark in the history of black performance and one of the key symbols of the Civil Rights movement.

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It has been more years than I care to think about when I last saw Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking play, "A Raisin in the Sun." As I prepared to review it during its current all-too-short run at the Weston Playhouse, I wondered if it stood the test of time and would it move me as much as the first time I saw it.

As Clair Huxtable on "The Cosby Show ," Phylicia Rashad was an '80s icon -- the working mom who had it all.

"A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's prize-winning modern classic that featured Sidney Poitier in its Broadway debut 50 years ago, will wrap up The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company's 2009 summer Main Stage season with performances from Aug.

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Tony Award winners Audra McDonald and Ruben Santiago-Hudson are among the winners of the 2009 NAACP Theatre Awards, to be presented on August 31, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the civil rights organization.

President Barack Obama wants to honor "agents of change" in presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Stars who die young generate tear-stained legends and what-if speculation. Stars who age age gracefully and keep working steadily don't gain the same adulation.

Richard Blackwood, Derek Griffiths and Nina Sosanya will join the previously announced Sanaa Lathan , Adrian Lester , Phylicia Rashad and James Earl Jones in Debbie Allen 's sell-out Broadway production of Tennessee Williams ' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

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The Public Theater will launch an online auction at 12 PM on Monday, June 22 in support of The Public Theater's annual gala on Thursday, June 25 for the opening of Twelfth Night.

Robert Osborne's eclectic column, which he has been writing since 1982, extends from Hollywood to Broadway.

The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning August: Osage County will end its Broadway run June 28 at the Music Box Theatre, producers announced late June 17.

Elizabeth Waterston, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Campion and Steve Ray Dallimore will join the Theatre for a New Audience production of Othello when it arrives at Seattle's Intiman Theatre in July.

Tribe Sunday, BBC Knowledge, 15:00 This fascinating series, hosted by Bruce Parry, offers a striking contrast to the globalised European society in which communities are being dissolved and drawn into a generic pattern of life and culture that is eroding much of what is unique and distinctive in the world.

As the son of two famous actors, Guy Davis wanted to make a statement independent of his parents.

Tony Award nominee Sanaa Lathan will star as Maggie the Cat in the all-black West End revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Lorraine Hansberry, who won the Drama Critics' Award for her first play A Raisin in the Sun, shown in a 1959 photo.