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...Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest American playwright and the first Negro to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play of the Year Award, which she received for Raisin in the Sun. She died of cancer six years later in 1965, while her second Broadway play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, was running. To Be Young, Gifted and Black, which opened last week at Manhattan's Cherry Lane Theater, is a warm, loving tribute to her, put together from her own writings - journals, letters, snippets of plays...
...ensemble to thread an elegiac mood through the range of comedy, rage, reminiscence and introspection. André Womble expertly manages a wide variety of black male parts, from an African nationalist to a run away slave; John Beal does equally well as the nigger-hating home owner of Raisin in the Sun and, in a scene from an un finished play, as a survivor of nuclear holocaust trying to teach some savage children what civilized man meant by beauty and music...
...Raisin in the Sun--Lorraine Hansberry's fine drama about being black in Chicago brought to the screen. ClaudiaMcNeil is stunning, and Sidney Poitier isn't half bad. At 2DIVINITY AVENUE, tonight...
...BLANCS, by the late Lorraine Hansberry (Raisin in the Sun) and edited by Ossie Davis. Life and death in an African hospital...
Besides its television work, Talent As sociates has also engaged in a limited way in feature-film production (Requi em for a Heavyweight, A Raisin in the Sun). Referring to Norton Simon...