'Slave Play' playwright Jeremy O. Harris is on a mission to diversify theater TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Like Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin In The Sun," Jeremy O. Harris' debut on Broadway was a smash hit. HARRIS: Like, I don't think one play will ever lose 12 Tony nominations, so it feels kind of punk in the same way …
Sidney Poitier appears at the Cannes Film Festival for his film “A Raisin in the Sun” on May 13, 1961. Claudia McNeill and Sidney Poitier in the film “A Raisin in the Sun.” Brooks Atkinson notes in “Broadway,” a chronicle of his years as drama critic, that “Sidney Poitier, who had become a Hollywood star, played the leading part in …
