A raisin in the sun / Hansberry, Lorraine

A play about a black family's struggle to buy a house in a white neighborhood, after the father dies. An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. It deals with their attempt to maintain dignity, self-respect, and a sense of humanity.

The classic play about a working-class African-American family struggling to maintain dignity in a harsh world. Features a full-cast performance.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

A play about a black family's struggle to buy a house in a white neighborhood, after the father dies. An insurance check can allow the Youngers to escape their frustrating life in a crowded Chicago apartment, but escape means different things to each family member. It deals with their attempt to maintain dignity, self-respect, and a sense of humanity.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class black family in Chicago.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.

In the 1950s, an African-American family on Chicago's south side is torn by different dreams when they receive an insurance settlement: the son wants to open his own business, a liquor store; the daughter wants to go to medical school; and the mother wants to buy a home in a middle-class white neighborhood.

A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle- class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.