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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/603
Title'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry
Extent1 file
Date1959
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Raisin in the Sun' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list, photographs, brief biographies of members of the cast and typescript date 1959; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; printed flyer on front cover [1959]; mentions the play won the New York Critics Award 1959

Performed at The Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, 4 Aug 1959, closing performance, 10 Oct 1959; presented by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan, the Select Operating Corporation and Jack Hylton; directed by Lloyd Richards; The Bristol Hippodrome, 20 Jul 1959
America: The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, 1959; presented by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan; directed by Lloyd Richards

Casts: Kim Hamilton, John Adan, Earle Hyman, Olga James, Juanita Moore, Bari Johnson, Scott Cunningham, Meredith Edwards, Lionel Ngakane, Keefe West, Donald Hoath, Claudia McNeil, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Diana Sands
Access StatusOpen

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