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David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaTanya
Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, Sophie Okenedo
in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," at the Ethel Barrymore
Theatre.
(Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe/Lincoln Center Theater)
Academy Award-nominee Sophie Okonedo and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose talk about their roles in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.”
Originally produced in 1959, the play was the first written by an
African American woman to be produced on Broadway, where it won the New
York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Set on Chicago’s South
Side, A Raisin in the Sun” revolves around the divergent dreams and
conflicts within three generations of the Younger family. “A Raisin in
the Sun” is playing at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre through June 15.
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