![]() ![]() Yet Hansberry was writing from personal experience. And there's always this tone of 'Who does she think she is?' " "There was a real resistance and intolerance of it," said Gresham. ![]() But when The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window – a critique of white liberalism that takes place in Greenwich Village – debuted in 1964, critics were not as enamored. That play, which realistically depicted a Black family on the South Side of Chicago, took Broadway by storm, became a popular film in 1961 and has subsequently become part of high school curriculums. "She was like the 'It' girl coming out of A Raisin in the Sun," said Joi Gresham, director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust. Writing A Raisin in the Sun was both a blessing and a curse for its young Black playwright. ![]() Now, the first major New York production in almost 60 years is getting a first-class treatment at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) – it stars Oscar Isaac, of Star Wars fame, and Rachel Brosnahan, best known as the marvelous Mrs. ![]() The show had a short Broadway run and has rarely been revived. Brooklyn Academy of MusicĪfter playwright Lorraine Hansberry rocketed to stardom in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, she followed it up, five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in a rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play. ![]()
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