A Raisin in the Sun

Over thirty years ago, Lorraine Hansberry touched the taproots of black American life as never before in A Raisin in the Sun, which won the New York Critics Circle Award for the 1958-59 season. Since then, people from all walks of life have heralded the play for its timeless relevance to the lives of all people and have placed it among the great classics of the American Theater. In this companion edition to the "American Playhouse" TV presentation, important lines and scenes cut from the original play have been restored. Now presented in its entirely for the first time eve, this historic and extraordinarily moving work represents the towering legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, a unique dramatist whose work has enriched American theater-and American life.