Lorraine Hansberry News

Marin Theatre will present the West Coast Premiere of Sally & Tom. Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets here!

Carrie's TOUCH will welcome Daralyne Kyesha Davis as Ruth Younger in Dinner with the Youngers. Learn more about the cast and see how to purchase tickets here!

If you are looking for an emotionally charged drama that will have you amongst the Younger family’s hopes and heartaches as if you were sitting in their very living room, A Raisin in the Sun is that play.

Midland Center for the Arts has unveiled a 2025–26 season filled with timeless stories and bold voices, featuring theatrical productions from Center Stage Theatre, performances from the Choirs at the Center, and youth productions showcasing local student talent. Single tickets for all events will go on sale Friday, September 12 at 10 a.m.

​​​​​​​Theatre Now New York's Industry Nights return with a Master Class given by award-winning writer Julia Jordan (Murder Ballad, Bernice Bobs Her Hair) on September 22nd at 6:30pm.

The musical Raisin, currently on stage at The Black Rep, is based on Lorraine Hansberry's 1950’s drama A Raisin in the Sun. The story tells of three generations of the Younger family sharing a cramped inner-city apartment on Chicago’s southside.

After a brief hiatus for the Labor Day Weekend, the St. Louis Theater scene gets back into full swing with more than twenty shows opening between now and the end of the year. Broadway World critic James Lindhorst picks the six shows opening in September and early October that he thinks cannot be missed, including the local premieres of Sandy Rustin's The Cottage, Tracy Lett's The Minutes, and Anna Ziegler's the Wanderers.

Carrie's TOUCH is casting for 'Dinner with the Youngers,' an innovative and emotionally charged theatrical experience reimagining pivotal scenes from Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun.' Learn more!

This September, the 25.26 Canadian Stage Berkeley season will kick off with the Canadian Premiere of one of Jeremy O. Harris’ SLAVE PLAY. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets!

Matthews Playhouse of the Performing Arts, in partnership with BNS Productions, will open its 30th Mainstage Season with Lorraine Hansberry’s seminal drama A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Dr. Corlis Hayes.

Caesars Palace Times Square, in partnership with award-winning actor and producer Wendell Pierce, announced a $10 million investment to launch and sustain the New York Coalition of Legacy Theatres of Color Fund.

Marin Theatre will kick off its 2025/26 season with Jonathan Spector’s play Eureka Day presented in partnership with Aurora Theatre Company in a new production that reunites almost all of its original cast and creative team. Learn more!

Carrie's TOUCH, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting African American women affected by breast cancer, will present New York City debut of its stage production 'Dinner with the Youngers. Learn more!

Oakland, CA - Carrie's TOUCH will present a special one-day performance of 'Dinner with the Youngers,' a groundbreaking dinner-theater experience rooted in the cultural and emotional legacy of 'A Raisin in the Sun.'

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

The Leah Ryan Fund has announced the winner of the 2025 Leah Prize, Amalia Oliva Rojas's In The Bronx Brown Girls Can See Stars Too (or The F*ck Is You Lookin' At?) In Rojas's play four young girls are forced to take a communication workshop in the hopes of avoiding juvie.

Celebration Theatre, in partnership with City of West Hollywood and Los Angeles LGBT Center's Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center will present the West Coast Premiere reading of sweet lorraine.

Graduate students Charlene Adhiambo and Amy B. Tiong have been named as the 2025 recipients for the Hansberry-Lilly Fellowship. Learn more about the Fellowship and the recipients here!

Three of this season’s plays and two of this season’s musicals are already getting revived for the second or third time this century! Twenty-five years into the 21st century and Broadway has already seen multiple revivals of Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, Gypsy, and Sunset Boulevard. 

What better way to cool off on a hot, Atlanta summer evening (or afternoon!) than taking in one of these exciting productions, coming to a community theatre near you! Check out all the amazing theatre that Metro Atlanta has to offer this summer!