Robert Nemiroff

LES BLANCS Comes to Oakland Theater Project
by Stephi Wild - Jun 11, 2025

Oakland Theater Project will stage Lorraine Hansberry’s final play Les Blancs (The Whites), adapted by Robert Nemiroff and directed by James Mercer II.

JIMMY & LORRAINE: A MUSING to be Presented at the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 12, 2024

HartBeat Ensemble's 'Jimmy & Lorraine: A Musing' will be presented at the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College, exploring the lives and legacies of James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Learn how to purchase tickets.

JIMMY & LORRAINE: A MUSING to be Presented at the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 4, 2024

HartBeat Ensemble's 'Jimmy & Lorraine: A Musing' will be presented at the Austin Arts Center at Trinity College. The play explores the relationship between James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Racial Equity School Theatre Program Launches Nationwide
by Stephi Wild - Mar 2, 2023

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) has officially launched Pathway, a program designed to create opportunities for students in communities of color to work with theatre industry professionals of color while producing works that encourage dialogue around racial equity.

Interview: Evelyn Collins, Fredi Walker-Browne of RAISIN at Axelrod PAC
by Lianna Albrizio - Feb 24, 2023

'Raisin' will run from February 24 to March 12.

Fredi Walker-Browne to Star in RAISIN the Musical at Axelrod Performing Arts Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 26, 2023

To mark the 50th anniversary of its 1973 premiere on Broadway, the Axelrod Performing Arts Center will present the musical Raisin, starring Fredi Walker-Browne. See how to purchase tickets!

Complete Cast Announced for Oscar Isaac & Rachel Brosnahan Led THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 12, 2023

BAM (The Brooklyn Academy of Music) has announced the full company and creative team for the first New York revival in 50 years of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. See how to purchase tickets!

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Will Star in Lorraine Hansberry's THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW at BAM
by Nicole Rosky - Oct 6, 2022

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has just announced the first major New York revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, directed by Obie Award winner Anne Kauffman at the BAM Harvey Theater beginning February 4 and opening February 23, 2023.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Cast & Creative Team for RAISIN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 22, 2022

 Skylight Music Theatre today announced the cast and creative team for Raisin, running April 8-24, 2022. Raisin is an uplifting musical adaptation of the award-winning play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Raisin won the 1974 Tony Award and the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Musical.

Guthrie Theater to Present Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 21, 2021

The Guthrie Theater today announced casting for Lorraine Hansberry’s theatrical masterpiece A Raisin in the Sun, directed by acclaimed Twin Cities artist Austene Van. A Raisin in the Sun will play January 8 – February 12, 2022, on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.

Village Theatre Announces 2022 Season and Its Return To Live, In-Person Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 3, 2021

Village Theatre today announced its return to the Mainstage with a 2022 Season of live theatre at both its Issaquah and Everett locations. The 2022 Welcome Back Season provides an opportunity to slowly reintroduce aspects of the live theatre-going experience that Village Theatre patrons know and love.

Skylight Music Theatre Announces Revised 2020-2021 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 31, 2020

 Skylight Music Theatre today unveiled their revised 2020-21 season, with a new line-up of outstanding music theatre addressing the realities of presenting live performances in the time of Covid-19. Skylight is Milwaukeea??s professional music theatre company and located at 158 N. Broadway in Milwaukeea??s Historic Third Ward.

BWW Review: LES BLANCS, National Theatre At Home
by Cindy Marcolina - Jul 2, 2020

Next up in the National Theatre at Home series of broadcasts we find a gem of a play coming straight from their archives, Lorraine Hansberry's staggeringly topical Les Blancs. Originally staged in 2016 by director Yaël Farber, it was posthumously completed by Hansberry's former husband Robert Nemiroff for a Broadway run, and then reworked by dramaturge Drew Lichtenberg, Joi Gresham (director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust), and Farber herself for the production at the National after consulting Hansberry's journals and notes.

The Guthrie Theater to Present IN THE HEIGHTS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL and More in 2020â€"2021 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 11, 2020

The Guthrie Theater today announced the 11 productions of its 2020-2021 mainstage season: Noël Coward's hot-blooded comedy Private Lives; Red Hot Patriot, a whip-smart one-woman show starring Kathleen Turner

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK Set for Free Reading at Circle in the Square
by Julie Musbach - Sep 25, 2019

Celebrating the immortal words and trailblazing work of Lorraine Hansberry, The Circle Series will stage a special 50th anniversary reading of her posthumously-compiled work To Be Young, Gifted and Black on Monday, September 30 at 7pm. Produced by Circle in the Square Theatre School (Paul Libin, Present; Susan Frankel, COO), Pigasus Institute, and Rachel Shuey, the staged reading will be held at Broadway's Circle in the Square and is open to the public.

Yale Rep Announces 2019-20 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2019

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE the multiple Tony Award-winning theatre dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classic works, has announced its 2019-20 Season.

BWW Review: RAISIN at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe
by Carolan Trbovich - Oct 9, 2018

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe Stages an Impassioned RAISIN

Performances of A RAISIN IN THE SUN Added at A Noise Within
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 13, 2018

A Noise Within (ANW) presents A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Gregg T. Daniel, the sixth production of its 26th season performing February 25 to April 8 (Press Opening March 3). Now added - three performances - Wednesday, March 14 at 7:30 pm, Wednesday March 29 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, April 8 at 7 pm.

Syracuse Stage Presents An American Classic
by Julie Musbach - Feb 14, 2018

Syracuse Stage continues its critically acclaimed season with a sterling production of Lorraine Hansberry's classic American play "A Raisin in the Sun," Feb. 21 - March 11, at the Syracuse Stage/Syracuse University Drama Complex in the Archbold Theatre, 820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse.

A Noise Within's A RAISIN IN THE SUN Begins 2/25
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 3, 2018

A Noise Within (ANW) presents A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Gregg T. Daniel, the sixth production of its 26th season performing February 25 to April 8 (Press Opening March 3).