Theater
February, 1974
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a landmark in the American theater--the first black play to touch a rising consciousness. Since Miss Hansberry's death in 1965, her husband and "literary executor," Robert Nemiroff, has been mining her creations with a sometimes questionable compulsiveness. For that reason and because the original play is basically a close-knit naturalistic drama that wears its sentiments on its sleeve, one greets the musical Raisin with skepticism--which is...
