Ethel Barrymore Theatre, (3/11/1959 - 10/17/1959)
Belasco Theatre, (10/19/1959 - 6/25/1960)

Category: Play, Drama, Original, Broadway
Description: A play in three acts
Setting: Chicago's Southside. Sometime between World War II and the present.

Comments: "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun? / Or fester like a sore -- / And then run? / Does it stink like rotten meat? / Or crust and sugar over -- / Like a syrupy sweet? / Maybe it just sags / like a heavy load. / Or does it explode?" --Langston Hughes

Opening Night Production Credits 

Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization

Produced by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan

Written by Lorraine Hansberry

Directed by Lloyd Richards

Designed by Ralph Alswang; Costumes by Virginia Volland; Lighted by Ralph Alswang; Sound Design by Masque Sound Engineering Company

General Manager: Walter Fried

Production Stage Manager: Leonard Auerbach; Stage Manager: Mervyn Williams

Press Representative: James D. Proctor and Merle Debuskey; Advertising: The Blaine Thompson Company and Fred Golden; Assistant to the Producer: Kenneth Schwartz and Mel Howard

Sidney Poitier	Walter Lee Younger Brother
Ruby Dee	Ruth Younger
Ivan Dixon	Joseph Asagai
Lonne Elder III	Bobo
John Fiedler	Karl Lindner
Louis Gossett	George Murchison
Ed Hall	Moving Man
Claudia McNeil	Lena Younger Mother
Diana Sands	Beneatha Younger
Glynn Turman	Travis Younger
Douglas Turner	Moving Man

Understudies: Frances Foster (Beneatha Younger, Ruth Younger), Ed Hall (George Murchison, Joseph Asagai), Beah Richards (Lena Younger), Charles Richardson (Travis Younger), Douglas Turner (Bobo, Walter Lee Younger), Mervyn Williams (Karl Lindner).