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    The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is an African-American arts institution located in downtown San Francisco. It is named after Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote...
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  • Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. She was the first African-American female author to...
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  • The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (category Plays by Lorraine Hansberry)
    Brustein's Window is the second and last staged play by playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. The play focuses on events that occur...
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  • A Raisin in the Sun (category Plays by Lorraine Hansberry)
    A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred")...
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    Daveed Diggs (category American male musical theatre actors)
    Brown University, where he graduated in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in theatre arts. He was recruited by Brown for his track skills and broke the Brown...
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  • Cold Winter's Night alongside Scott Douglas Cunningham at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco, California in July 2007. Lekakis is gay. He...
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    in the 2016 New York Theatre Workshop production of Othello, and returned to Broadway in the 2023 revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney...
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  • January 16, 2018. Retrieved January 16, 2018. Hurwitt, Robert. "Lorraine Hansberry Theatre to stage 'The Bluest Eye'". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived...
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  • This is a list of theatres and live performance venues in San Francisco, California. For more information on theater in San Francisco, see Culture of San...
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    San Francisco Playhouse (category Theatre companies in San Francisco)
    Street Theatre and The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, before becoming the site of San Francisco Playhouse. During its tenure with The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre...
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  • Robert B. Nemiroff (category American theatre managers and producers)
    was an American theater producer and songwriter, and the husband of Lorraine Hansberry. Nemiroff was a book editor and a music publisher, as well as an award-winning...
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  • Les Blancs (category Plays by Lorraine Hansberry)
    playwright Lorraine Hansberry. It debuted on Broadway on November 15, 1970 and ran until December 19, 1970. The play was Lorraine Hansberry’s final work...
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  • of Black Men. In 2002, Jelks performed The Piano Lesson at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Later that year, Jelks performed Joe Turner's Come and Gone (directed...
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    Ntozake Shange (category Postmodern theatre)
    views of Mt. Fuji (1987). First produced in San Francisco at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre; first New York production at the New Dramatists. Daddy Says (1989)...
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    Actors Studio (category Theatre in New York City)
    Monroe, Marlon Brando (who joined the studio in its first year), Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop...
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    Ray Fearon (section Theatre)
    2010, he starred as Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. This critically acclaimed production was directed by Michael Buffong...
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  • Alley Theatre, the Asian Stories in America Theatre, TheaterWorks, the Impact Theatre, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the New Conservatory Theatre Center...
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    Ralph Carter (category American male musical theatre actors)
    Times, Carter appeared in the Broadway musical Raisin, based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun, as was noted in the credits during the...
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  • [hieroglyph], was co-produced by The San Francisco Playhouse and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in 2021 for a digital production. Dickerson-Despenza pulled Victory...
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    staged at the Toneelgrope Amsterdam and New York Theatre Workshop (2016) Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry, final text adapted by Robert Nemiroff, directed...
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  • Gus Birney (section Theatre)
    "Review: Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan in Lorraine Hansberry's Thrilling Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window". TheatreMania. Retrieved April 15, 2024. "Tony...
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  • Marvin Starkman. In 1965, Cazale was part of the National Tour of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window He worked as a messenger at...
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    Junk in 2017. She returned to Broadway in the 2023 revival of the Lorraine Hansberry play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window portraying Mavis Parodus...
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  • NPR.org. "How Margo Hall's storied career led to her running Lorraine Hansberry Theatre". October 15, 2020. Jones, Chad (October 15, 2012). "Pomo Afro...
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  • the role of Beneatha in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, directed by Michael Buffong for the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester which opened...
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    activist Carl Augustus Hansberry, who married her father's sister, Nannie Louise Perry, and the first cousin of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, their daughter...
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  • 2022-11-25 Perry, Imani (2018). Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0807039830...
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    of Lena Younger in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of the Lorraine Hansberry classic A Raisin in the Sun. The play was directed by Phylicia Rashad...
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  • Glenda Dickerson (category American theatre directors)
    including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy...
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  • Stoppard Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Top Girls by Caryl Churchill A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...
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