Raisin in the Sun

<b>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 <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i> opened on Broadway in 1959.</b> <p/>This edition presents the fully restored uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. <p/>Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem Harlem which warns that a dream deferred might dry up/like a raisin in the sun. <p/>The events of every passing year add resonance to <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i> said <i>The New York Times</i>. It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic.