Meet the Cast of A Raisin in the Sun
Say hello to the Younger family! Meet the amazing cast bringing Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, to life.
From top to bottom, left to right: Shanésia Davis, Brian Keys, Kierra Bunch, Martasia Jones, Jeremias Darville, Di’Aire Wilson, Eliott Johnson, Charles Andrew Gardner, Julian Parker, Vincent Teninty, and J. Nicole Brooks.
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is a stunning portrayal of a family’s fight for dignity and the right to dream.
As the Youngers await 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. 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, Senior Artistic Producer Gabrielle Randle-Bent (Antigone) brings Hansberry’s masterpiece home to Chicago’s vibrant South Side and Court’s stage for the very first time.
“Court Theatre’s A Raisin in the Sun really is a homecoming,” shares Randle-Bent. “This is a play that’s about the South Side of Chicago – not just in the 1950s, but the South Side of Chicago that began at the dawn of the Great Migration and continues to live with us today. It’s about people who came from far away and arrived in Chicago with the hopes of a better life – a life of their own choosing. A personal touchstone for many, we want to create numerous points of connection to this staging of Raisin, so we are also featuring a collection of public programs to foster even deeper engagement. We cannot wait to share this production and programming with you.”
A Raisin in the Sun runs from January 31 – March 2. Tickets are available now, and can be purchased online or by calling the Box Office at (773) 753-4472. More information about the complementary public programs will be shared in early January 2025.
I must come see this production. Thank you for bringing it here