Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs prophetically confronts the hope and tragedy of Africa in revolution. The setting is a white Christian mission in a colony about to explode. The time is that hour of reckoning when no one the guilty nor the innocent...
Collected together, two of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination and the heart. With an Introduction by Robert Nemiroff....
"A Raisin in the Sun" - der Titel nimmt Bezug auf ein Gedicht von Langston Hughes - war 1959 das erste Stück einer schwarzen Dramatikerin, das am Broadway aufgeführt wurde. Es wurde ein Riesenerfolg. Erzählt wird die Geschichte...
Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int.This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicagoâs South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent...
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.