February 23 - March 1, 2024
By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by Ron Himes

Longstreet Theatre

Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking masterpiece – the first play by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway – has inspired audiences worldwide since its debut in 1959 and remains vital and compelling today. The divergent dreams of three generations of the Younger family, living together in a small apartment on Chicago’s South Side, begin to clash when a large insurance settlement arrives in the mail. Tensions increase as their individual aspirations to make a better life are tested by an outside world of racism and economic discrimination, threatening to rip apart their family forever.

“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.” – James Baldwin