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09.08.2017

Screening tonight in Toronto! On Friday, September 8, 2017, the world premiere of Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, a documentary about playwright Lorraine Hansberry, opens as an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain, the film is narrated by award-winning actress LaTanya Richardson Jackson and features the voice of Tony Award-winning actress Anika Noni Rose as Lorraine Hansberry.

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04.29.2014

The Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play picks up five Tony nominations.

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04.10.2014

Jesse Green of New York Magazine/Vulture applauds the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun—with a star who knows what to do in the role.

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04.10.2014

Terry Teachout's review of the 2014 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun for the Wall Street Journal says this is "a great production of a great play, a blazing tale of hurt and hope that will burn itself so deeply into your heart that you'll be feeling its heat for a long, long time to come."

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04.10.2014

In his review for The Wrap, Robert Hofler says: Denzel Washington shifts the balance of Lorraine Hansberry's classic play, and he shifts it in the right direction.

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04.07.2014

Darlene Ortega's review for the Portland Observer of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in SIdney Brustein's WIndow notes that, "The play is so far ahead of its time that I wonder if we are ready even now for the prophetic insight of Ms. Hansberry, so famously young, gifted, and black. But I'm grateful that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has gone to the trouble to offer us this opportunity."

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04.04.2014

Ben Brantley of the New York Times notes that ". . .a drama often presented as something monumental, to be approached with awe and piety, becomes refreshingly accessible."

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04.04.2014

The bottom line in David Rooney's review of A Raisin in the Sun for the Hollywood reporter: The charged emotions and earthy humor of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play remain undimmed.

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04.04.2014

Marilyn Stasio says, “The performance is a personal triumph for Washington, who refrains from star-strutting to fold himself into a tight-knit ensemble of committed stage thesps who treat this revival like a labor of love.”

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04.03.2014

Peter Marks, writing for The Washington Post, applauds Kenny Leon’s 2014 production of A Raisin in the Sun.

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