A Raisin in the Sun
- Awards: TONY Award: BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY 2014 , TONY Award: BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY, Kenny Leon 2014 , TONY Award: BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY, Sophie Okonedo 2014
- Opening Date: March 8, 2014
Set on Chicago's South Side, A Raisin in the Sun revolved around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee (Denzel Washington), his wife Ruth (Sophie Okonedo), his sister Beneatha (Anika Noni Rose), his son Travis (Bryce Clyde Jenkins) and matriarch Lena, called Mama (LaTanya Richardson Jackson).
Originally produced in 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, where it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The Washington Post has called it “one of a handful of great American dramas. A Raisin in the Sun belongs in the inner circle, along with Death of a Salesman and Long Day’s Journey into Night.” The New York Times has hailed it as “the play that changed American theatre forever.”
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Barrymore Theatre
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- TONY Award: BEST FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY, Sophie Okonedo 2014
- TONY Award: BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY, Kenny Leon 2014
- TONY Award: BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY 2014
- Opening Date: March 8, 2014
- Closing Date: June 15, 2014
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