Lorraine Hansberry

Tony Awards 2012: 'Clybourne Park' by Bruce Norris wins best play

2012-06-10 19:28:00

"Clybourne Park," the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy-drama by Bruce Norris, won the Tony for new play. The critically acclaimed play, which ran at Playwrights Horizons in New York, the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the Mark Taper...

Tony Awards 2012: From L.A. to the Great White Way

2012-06-11 06:30:00

The Tony Awards may be the toast of Broadway, but there were Champagne glasses being raised for some of Sunday's victors who have roots in Southern California. The most noteworthy production was "Clybourne Park," which was named best play. The Pulitzer...

Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'

2012-07-24 19:41:00

Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...

Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners

2012-06-10 22:09:00

Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...

Theater review: 'A Raisin in the Sun' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

2012-01-24 16:33:20

Theater review: 'Clybourne Park' at the Mark Taper Forum

2012-01-26 16:33:59

Ivy grows in students' 'Raisin in the Sun' garden

2012-02-02 16:36:42

Jordan Roth, 'Clybourne Park's' Broadway producer, makes West Coast swing

2012-02-11 16:33:06

'Margo Veil,' 'Raisin in the Sun' top L.A. Drama Critics awards

2012-03-20 04:32:18

Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Clybourne Park' paired with 'Raisin in the Sun' by Center Theatre Group

2011-07-11 16:33:03

Influences: Actress Anna Deavere Smith

2011-07-20 16:33:05

Mark Taper Forum's 2012 season may feature two Broadway imports

2011-09-07 16:33:08

In "Clybourne Park," the drama inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun," Shamos plays dual roles that he has described as "jackassy." In the first act, set in 1959, he is a community leader who discourages his white neighbors from selling their house to a black family.

2012-05-31 00:00:00

The cast rehearses a 1959-set scene in Bruce Norris' abrasively funny and fiendishly provocative play at the Mark Taper Forum. The play fills in the story of the Chicago house in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."

2012-01-26 00:00:00

Kim Staunton, right, Brandon David Brown and Deidrie Henry in the Lorraine Hansberry classic.

2012-01-23 19:39:51