• A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. The title comes from the poem "Harlem" (also known as "A Dream Deferred")...
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    A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 American drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, and starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Roy Glenn...
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  • A Raisin in the Sun is a 2008 American period drama television film directed by Kenny Leon and starring Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, and...
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  • A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. A Raisin in the Sun may also refer to: "A raisin in the sun", a...
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    A raisin is a dried grape. Raisins are produced in many regions of the world and may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking, and brewing. In the United...
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    Phylicia Rashad (category The Interviews name ID same as Wikidata)
    in a Play, which she won for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun. In 2022, Rashad won her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a...
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    Stephen McKinley Henderson (category University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni)
    Between Riverside and Crazy in 2023. He also acted in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun in 2014. He made his film debut in A Pleasure Doing Business...
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  • Sun-Maid Growers of California is an American farmer-owned cooperative of raisin growers headquartered in Fresno, California. Sun-Maid is one of the largest...
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    In 2004, Lathan's performance in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, earned her a nomination at the Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in...
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  • A raisin is a dried grape. Raisin may also refer to: Raisin (surname) Raisin (musical), musical version of the play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine...
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    Caesar (2005), Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (2018), the later of which earned him another Tony...
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    (2009). In 2014, Richardson received a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in the play A Raisin in the Sun, her second...
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    Diana Sands (category The High School of Music & Art alumni)
    Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character, Walter, in the original stage and film versions of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959)....
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    Lorraine Hansberry (category Deaths from pancreatic cancer in New York (state))
    was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives...
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    Louis Gossett Jr. (category The Interviews name ID same as Wikidata)
    including A Raisin in the Sun (1959), The Blacks (1961), Tambourines to Glory (1963), and The Zulu and the Zayda (1965). In 1977, Gossett appeared in the popular...
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    the Broadway musical Raisin, based on the Lorraine Hansberry drama A Raisin in the Sun, as was noted in the credits during the first season. Carter started...
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    John Fiedler (category Deaths from cancer in New Jersey)
    neighbourhood in A Raisin in the Sun (1961); the voice of Piglet in Disney's Winnie the Pooh productions; Vinnie, one of Oscar's poker cronies, in the film The Odd...
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    Denzel Washington (category Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners)
    adaptation in 2016. Washington has since returned to Broadway in the revivals of Lorraine Hansberry play A Raisin in the Sun (2014) and the Eugene O'Neill...
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    Award. Leon won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for A Raisin in the Sun (2014). He was Tony-nominated for Fences (2010) and A Soldier's Play...
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    received six Tony Awards for her roles in Carousel (1994), Master Class (1996), Ragtime (1998), A Raisin in the Sun (2004), Porgy and Bess (2012), and Lady...
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    Hisham Tawfiq (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the Gulf War)
    production of A Raisin in the Sun, which Tawfiq has said to be his dream role. Tawfiq starred in the BET film Gun Hill as Capt. Sanford, commander of a counter-crime...
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  • Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat...
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    Claudia McNeil (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    premiering the role of matriarch Lena Younger in both the stage and screen productions of A Raisin in the Sun. She later appeared in a 1981 production of the musical...
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  • the Union Square Theatre's A Raisin in the Sun, and appeared in Longacre Theatre's musical Don't Get God Started. At the same time, DuPois began appearing...
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    starred in the 2005 film Carlito's Way: Rise to Power. He played Walter Lee Younger in the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and the television...
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    Sophie Okonedo (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    Ruth Younger in the 2014 revival of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She returned...
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    Fiddler in the 1977 ABC television miniseries Roots. Gossett has also starred in numerous other film productions including A Raisin in the Sun, The Landlord...
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    American male roles in films such as Porgy and Bess (1959), A Raisin in the Sun (1961), and A Patch of Blue (1965). He acted in three films in 1967 films which...
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    attention as a child actor in the original 1959 Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, Turman is known for his roles as Lew Miles on the prime-time...
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    and A Raisin in the Sun at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, New York. In December 1984, while working in A Play of Giants, Caldwell was struck by a car...
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