Lorraine Hansberry News

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!

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!

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. 

NextStop Theatre Company has announced its 2025/26 season—the first fully programmed by Producing Artistic Director, Heather Lanza, who joined the company in the fall of 2024.

Penn State will present the premiere production of the musical True Crime Frankenstein or the Modern, Modern Prometheus June 12-15 in the Penn State Downtown Theatre.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson is back on Broadway in Purpose, and the actress recently visited Sherri to discuss her experience in the show, as well as to reveal what it was like to direct her husband, Samuel L. Jackson, in The Piano Lesson. Watch the interview now!

LaTanya Richardson Jackson joined The View on Thursday to discuss starring in the new play Purpose, her new Sardi's portrait, and more. Watch the interview!

Dear Readers, in the past I’ve talked about plays that are essential for your theatrical education, plays that are just good for you. If those fluff plays out there are candy, then these essentials are your vegetables. Once such play is Lorraine Hansberry’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic from 1959, “A Raisin in the Sun”, considered by many to be one of the best plays written. But there’s nothing saying that these essential plays can’t be entertaining, as is evident in the current production at Taproot Theatre. They’ve expertly given us our veggies but cooked them to perfection and given some delicious seasoning or sauce to make it all go down well.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson, currently starring on Broadway in Purpose, was recently honored with her portrait at the iconic Sardi's. BroadwayWorld was there for the unveiling and you can check out photos here!

Headlong’s new staging of A Raisin in the Sun by director Tinuke Craig is now available to stream on Digital Theatre+. Learn more about the production and see how to stream.

Choices abound for audiences looking to celebrate the stories of women this Women’s History Month on stages all throughout Chicagoland.

In April, Significant Productions will present QUALIA - By Ashleigh Ann Gardner, as the fourth and final production of the 2024/2025 Season at The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol. Learn more and see how to purchase.

Dinner with the Youngers, an immersive theatrical experience inspired by A Raisin in the Sun, will make its way to Los Angeles in March. Learn more and see how to attend.