![]() ![]() She lived among the artists, intellectuals and social activists in Greenwich Village. ![]() Yet Hansberry was writing from personal experience. And there's always this tone of 'Who does she think she is?' " "There was a real resistance and intolerance of it," said Gresham. But when The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window – a critique of white liberalism that takes place in Greenwich Village – debuted in 1964, critics were not as enamored. That play, which realistically depicted a Black family on the South Side of Chicago, took Broadway by storm, became a popular film in 1961 and has subsequently become part of high school curriculums. "She was like the 'It' girl coming out of A Raisin in the Sun," said Joi Gresham, director of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust. Writing A Raisin in the Sun was both a blessing and a curse for its young Black playwright. Now, the first major New York production in almost 60 years is getting a first-class treatment at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) – it stars Oscar Isaac, of Star Wars fame, and Rachel Brosnahan, best known as the marvelous Mrs. The show had a short Broadway run and has rarely been revived. 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. ![]()
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Bestselling author Barbara Nickless was born in Guam, and traveled all over before she made it to Colorado. ![]() Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Maybe someone knows what really happened to the boy he’s pretending to be…and if he can’t uncover the truth-he could be next the next Daniel Tate to disappear. Here Lies Daniel Tate is written by Cristin Terrill and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. Until he realizes that maybe Daniel isn’t missing at all. Now that he’s finally found a place to belong, he doesn’t question his luck. Daniel has everything he’s ever dreamed of-wealth, privilege, the chance to make a fresh start, and most importantly, a family that loves him. A young con artist who’s been taking on false identities for years, this impostor has stumbled onto the scam of a lifetime. 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