A Raisin in the Sun

Presented By

Court Theatre

Location

Court Theatre

5535 S. Ellis, Chicago, IL, 60637
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New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.

As the Youngers await their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred?

Staged sixty years after Lorraine Hansberry’s passing, Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.

Theatre Week Performances:

Thursday, February 6 – SOLD OUT
Friday, February 7 – 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 – 7:30pm
Wednesday, February 12 – 7:30pm
Thursday, February 13 – 7:30pm
Friday, February 14 – 7:30pm
Saturday, February 15 – 7:30pm
Sunday, February 16 – 7:30pm

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