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A Raisin in the Sun

February 21, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm CST

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A Raisin in the Sun

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, 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, Associate Artistic Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.

Accessible Performances:

  • March 1, 2025 at 2:00 pm (Touch Tour/Audio Description/ASL Interpretation)
    • Touch Tour at 12:30 pm
  • March 2, 2025 at 2:00 pm (Open Captioning)

Details

Date:
February 21, 2025
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
CST
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Website:
https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2024-2025-season/a-raisin-in-the-sun/

Organizer

Court Theatre
Phone
(773) 753-4472
Email
info@courttheatre.org
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Venue

Court Theatre
5535 S. Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637 United States
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Phone
(773) 753-4472
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