A Raisin in the Sun Extended – Again! Now Through March 23
Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, has been extended again through Sunday, March 23. Two more weeks with the Younger family!
Audience demand has been unprecedented, and the reviews have been glowing: the Chicago Tribune gave this production four out of four stars, and praised it as the “best show of the young year…not to be missed.“ The Chicago Reader echoed those sentiments, proclaiming that A Raisin in the Sun is “exactly what we need in times like this.” We are proud to stage Lorraine Hansberry’s iconic work of realism, and we are overjoyed that it is resonating with audiences and critics alike.
“I am thrilled that A Raisin in the Sun is extending even further into March. Thank you and congratulations to the cast, crew, creative team, and Court staff who are making this possible,” shares Director and Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent. “Now even more community members can experience Lorraine Hansberry’s poetry. This is a milestone for Court as an organization, and we are immensely proud to be doing this work about the South Side, on the South Side, and have it resonate with South Side audiences in such a powerful way.”
As the Younger family awaits their recently deceased patriarch’s life insurance check, they allow themselves to imagine a bigger life – a life with room to breathe – until those plans are thrown into jeopardy. Lorraine Hansberry’s language rings as wise and prescient as ever in her moving answer to Langston Hughes’s question, What happens to a dream deferred? Staged sixty years after Lorraine Hansberry’s passing, Randle-Bent brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.
Finally, to enrich your experience of the production, we invite you to join us for our complementary suite of public programs, running through March 1. Explore the play, its themes, and its modern relevance in community, and join us in a deep dive of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece.
Tickets to A Raisin in the Sun – both for the regular run and the extension – are available online or by calling the Box Office at (773) 753-4472. We’ll see you at the theatre!