"A Raisin in the Sun, " Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 drama about a black family that wants to move to a white neighborhood, doubtless came across as strongly political when it first opened on Broadway.
As you probably know by now, Mr. Norris's play is a variation on "A Raisin in the Sun, " Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play about the Youngers, a black family that moves to a white neighborhood in Chicago.
Fifty-four years later, though, "Raisin" seems not so much a here-and-now assault on racism as a history play about black culture in the Eisenhower era, and what hits you hardest is the unflinching truthfulness with which Ms. Hansberry has enacted the hurtful and universal complexities of family life.