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While some say the Black playwright veered out of her lane in penning the character, others - including Anne Kauffman, who's directing a just-opened run of the play - beg to differ
Hansberry, who's work is being revived, saw just two of her works produced on Broadway before her death from cancer at 34 in 1965.
The acting duo looked stunning on the carpet at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater in New York City. Oscar donned a grey suit, complete with a jacket and loose-fitting trousers.
Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.
The first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?