Playwright's Life
The birthing place of Lorraine Hansberry.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
One other play Lorraine wrote that starts with The Sign?
What is The Sign in Sydney Brustein's Window?
This musical was released in 1954 and has since been made into a movie.
What is Peter Pan?
The race that was happening when the play was released.
What is the space race?
Lorraine's sexuality.
What is lesbian?
The jobs of her parents.
What is a real estate entrepreneur and a school teacher?
One other play Lorraine wrote that starts with the letter L.
What is Les Blancs?
A different way Lorraine changed Theatre.
What is helping to expand the horizons of theater for all people?
The war that was happening when the play was released.
What is the Cold War?
Lorraine was the first to do this.
What is produce a play on Broadway as a black woman?
Influenced her to write her play.
What is witnessing court cases on real estate discrimination?
The year The Sign in Sydney's Burstein's Window was released.
What is 1965?
The state of the theatre at this time.
What is segregated?
The flu that caused 1.1 million deaths and it occurred when the play was released.
What is the Asian Flu?
Lorraine was the youngest American and first black playwright to win this award.
What is New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play?
A milestone in plays that Lorraine set.
What is being the first black woman to have a play on Broadway?
The year Les Blancs was released.
What is 1970?
Theatre was lacking this at this time.
What is the lack of black representation?
This country gained independence around the time that the play was released.
What is Ghana?
This is the reason she was investigated by the FBI.
What is radical leftist views and activism?
Another way her play was shown to the world.
What is a movie?
The first performance of A Raisin in the Sun.
What is March 11, 1959?
A way Lorraine changed Theatre.
What is making African American theater more welcoming to people?
This treaty was signed around the time that the play was released.
What is the Treaty of Rome?
She died on the same day as the closing of her second show because of this.
What is pancreatic cancer.