We're reading A Raisin the Sun and watching the film adaptation for our May meeting. Join us for the discussion and screening!
Our “Book is Better” book club includes a discussion about the book and a screening of the adaptation. This month, we're reading A Raisin in the Sun by by Lorraine Hansberry and we're watching the film adaptation. Ticket includes 10% off a drink at the bar.
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
Purchase the book from us here.
We're reading A Raisin the Sun and watching the film adaptation for our May meeting. Join us for the discussion and screening!
Our “Book is Better” book club includes a discussion about the book and a screening of the adaptation. This month, we're reading A Raisin in the Sun by by Lorraine Hansberry and we're watching the film adaptation. Ticket includes 10% off a drink at the bar.
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
Purchase the book from us here.
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315 Smith Street
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