One of the cooler stories you'll read today
Posted this Sun-Times article to Facebook but wanted to put it here too. The headline — "Hansberry's white roommate tells of reading 'A Raisin in the Sun' " — is odd enough to get your attention, and the story comes through with so much more. Simply lived and told.
If you have time to read one more story, I ran across a link I'd posted here in the past to a 2004 Post story about the play's origins. That link is now dead, but you can still find the story here. The first paragraph:
There was nothing like it on Broadway, which made it all the more powerful and beautiful and mesmerizing and tender. A great billowing curtain had been thrown back on a whole people, a whole race. The whole production had a leaping, antic, ferocious quality to it, as if the playwright planned to split something wide open, right in front of that first-night audience.
