The Fall Theater season is off and running and it's all about the ills our generation is heir to. Here's my take on two of the productions which have kicked off the season! Lorraine Victoria Kanyike, Joshua Mckenna, Juanita A. Rodrigues, Valyn Lyric Turner, Damon Singletary, & Jon Vellante/Photo: Ken Yotsukura Photography A [...]
PHOTO: Carl Van Vechten, © Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University HARLEM BY LANGSTON HUGHES What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar [...]
The Huntington Theatre Company has given us a stirring production of the first play by an African-American woman ever produced on Broadway-- 54 years ago: Lorraine Hansberry's landmark "A Raisin in the Sun." The play tells the story of the African-American Younger family living in a cramped apartment on Chicago's South side in 1959. The [...]
