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Follow Your Dream – A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response
Follow Your Dream By David Kurkowski You can also listen to this song on YouTube This is a finalist in our A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response Contest. From April…
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The Dreamer – A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response
The Dreamer By Mini Racker Desire, such a feathery angel, deserts the sarcophagus of my body. I believed in the thing that no one sees. One of water and writhing,…
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What is a dream deferred? A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response
By Vladimir Castillo You can also watch this video on YouTube. This is a finalist in our A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response Contest. From April 17-19 you can visit our…
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A Dream Deferred Cannot be Ignored for Long – A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response
By Lisette Vasquez Intro: A dream deferred cannot be ignored for long. A dream is what motivates us to live, it gives meaning to life. A dream can only be…
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We Are Such Stuff – A Raisin in the Sun Creative Response
We Are Such Stuff By Evan Meyer Waking in the morning, The dream you had in the night Tarries – within your grasp But oh so fragile and immaterial. Lie…
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More on Raisin, past and present
Throughout our production of A Raisin in the Sun, we’ve been learning about the inspiration for the production, and how this landmark play has influenced other artists. Here are three…
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What’s Up with Rachel – Introducing our 2013 Resident Playwright for The Writers’ Room
Our second installment of The Writers’ Room, >salve our playwright residency program, began last week when playwright Rachel Bonds arrived in Philadelphia from Brooklyn. As we did last year with…
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The right hair for Raisin
By Alison Roberts, pharm Costume Designer I had a wonderful time designing the costumes for the Arden Theatre Company’s production of A Raisin in the Sun. I had been looking…
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Opening Night of A Raisin in the Sun
Arden friends and artists gathered on March 13 to celebrate opening night of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play directed by Walter Dallas. Members of the Sylvan Society…
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A Raisin in the Sun – Submit your Creative Response
In 1925, Langston Hughes wrote his poem Harlem, which begins: What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? …
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