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Lorraine Hansberry

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    April 19, 2012

    Pulitzer Winning Clybourne Park: My Review

    "You gotta getta gimmick," as they say, and playwright Bruce Norris has gotten hold of a helluva one in Clybourne Park. His play picks up where Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 racial-progress classic A Raisin in the Sun left off. In fact, it's set in the same Chicago house that play's black family moves ... More >>

  • Theater

    March 2, 2010

    Yank!, Clybourne Park, and Mr. & Mrs. Fitch Go For Gimmicks

    "You gotta getta gimmick," as they say, and playwright Bruce Norris has gotten hold of a helluva one in Clybourne Park. His play picks up where Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 racial-progress classic A Raisin in the Sun left off. In fact, it's set in the same Chicago house that play's black family moves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Clip Job: Jack Newfield's Mugging!

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJuly 9, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 38The Town Hall 'Mugging'By Nat HentoffI had been anxious to find out what had happened at Town Hall on June 15 when "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash" was discussed by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Lorraine Hansber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Clip Job: Jack Newfield's 'Mugging the White Liberal'

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 25, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 36Mugging the White LiberalBy Jack NewfieldImagine three goldfish dropped into a fish tank filled with sharks. Or imagine Billy Budd mugged by the Emperor Jones.Then you might have some idea of the malevolent and paran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2009

    Clip Job: Miss Hansberry & Bobby K

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 6, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 33Miss Hansberry & Bobby KBy Diane Fisher"When we left the Kennedys' apartment I had a feeling of complete futility, and as we got on the elevator I wondered if there is any way to make the white people in this co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2008

    Clip Job: Why Ivy Leaguers Come to the Village

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJune 6, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 33Miss Hansberry & Bobby KBy Diane Fisher"When we left the Kennedys' apartment I had a feeling of complete futility, and as we got on the elevator I wondered if there is any way to make the white people in this co ... More >>

  • Film

    February 27, 2007

    Maysles Archives

    Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

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    December 5, 2006

    Horoscope

    Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

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    May 4, 2004

    Theater

    Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

  • Theater

    April 20, 2004

    Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin: Still Just as Fresh 45 Years Later

    Filmmaker Al Maysles moves offices; you win

  • News

    January 15, 2002

    Spinning Race at Harvard

    The Business Behind the Gates-West Power Play

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    December 26, 2000

    Lyrical Gangstas

    The Business Behind the Gates-West Power Play

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    April 18, 2000

    Blues for Mr. Baldwin

    The Business Behind the Gates-West Power Play

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    July 6, 1999

    Where Kids Never Stop Learning

    The Mayor Should Come to P.S. 110

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    June 8, 1999

    Life After Wit

    Director Derek Anson Jones Returns to MCC

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    June 8, 1999

    Rockin' in Rhythm

    Part two of our Jazz Supplement

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    May 18, 1999

    Steal This Stage

    The State of Women in Theater, 1999

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