A Raisin in the Sun, 1959

The run closed June 25, 1960

Opened

March 11, 1959

Closed

June 25, 1960

Performances

530

Previews

1

Theatre

Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Of the 706 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and carry a performance count, this is the 48th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of A Raisin in the Sun 3 more that season

2004	Royale Theatre Revival · Kenny Leon	88 perf.
2005	Lyric Theatre Original
2014	Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Kenny Leon	85 perf.

Who was in it15 named

Sidney Poitier
Ruby Dee
Ivan Dixon
Lonne Elder Iii
John Fiedler
Diana Sands
Glynn Turman
Douglas Turner
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Charles Richardson

5 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 10 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Lloyd Richards

Producer

Philip Rose

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for A Raisin in the Sun at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.