‘A Raisin in the Sun’ opens Nov. 10

A celebration of black theater and drama is planned Nov. 10-12 at University Theatre, built around “A Raisin in the Sun,” a 1959 play written by Lorraine Hansberry. The Universty Theatre production, directed by Clinton Turner Davis, Arts Institute interdisciplinary artist-in-residence, will be performed at the Wisconsin Union Theater Nov. 10-11 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 12, at 5 p.m.

“A Raisin in the Sun,” a powerful drama about one family’s struggle to achieve their American dream on Chicago’s South Side in the 1950s, made playwright Hansberry, who attended UW–Madison in the late 1940s, the youngest person and only the fifth woman ever to receive the prestigious New York Drama Critic’s Award.

A panel presentation “She was “Young Gifted and Black’: Hansberry’s Legacy to Black Theatre and Drama” is planned Saturday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.-noon, in the Ronald E. Mitchell Theatre, Vilas. Information: 263-1642.