14 Black Storytellers Who Are Remaking American Theater in 2023
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 25, 2023
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun arrived on the Great White Way, as Broadway was (unironically) nicknamed. At the time, in Montgomery, Alabama, bus segregation had recently been toppled. In Ghana, independence from Great Britain had been achieved. It was the precipice of the 1960s, a period of radical change.
It was against that backdrop that Hansberry, a 28-year-old Black woman from Chicago . . .
