A rarely-revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful
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.
After playwright Lorraine Hansberry rocketed to stardom in 1959 with A Raisin in the Sun, she followed it up, five years later, with The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. The show had a short Broadway run and has rarely been revived.
Now, the first major New York production in almost 60 years is getting a at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) – it stars Oscar Isaac, of fame, and Rachel Brosnahan, best known as the
