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A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play “A Raisin In The Sun”, it was produced on March 11, 1959 in Ethel Barrymore Theatre located in New York. “A Raisin In The Sun” was the first drama by a produced African American women on Broadway. This play won the 1958 and 1959 New York Drama Critics Award. The title of this play has a significance impact. It shows how a family starts out good then gradually goes down hill, and then they start back up good. For instance a sun raises then sets. “A Raisin In The Sun”, shows a decisive portrait of African American life in the mid-1950s. This drama took place in a living room on the Southside of Chicago. Walter Lee “Sidney Poitier” is a black chauffer that has a dreams of better life and but he is paid below minimum wage. His mother receives a life insurance check for 10,000 dollars for her husband’s death. Walter hopes to use the money to open a liquor store. His sister Beneatha “Diana Sands” has dreams of going to medical school to become doctor. Walter’s and Beneatha’s mother Lena Younger also known as Mama “Claudia McNeil” has a dream of owning her own home in a tidy, integrated suburb. Mama and Beneath shares a small apartment with Walter,