‘Raisin In The Sun’ Theater Review: Iconic Play Re-Imagined For the BLM Era
The iconic 1959 play A Raisin In The Sun, which follows the Youngers, a black family trying to move from a tenement in the Chicago’s South Side to a working class white neighborhood, seems ripe for re-exploring for the BLM era with a new production at the Public Theater in New York City. The family of five is stuck in a two-bedroom apartment in a black ghetto as they await a $10,000 life insurance payout after the death of their father. Director Robert O’Hera‘s powerful production focuses on the struggle of black manhood of Walter Lee (Francois Batiste), who wants to use the windfall to buy in...