The run closed June 25, 1960
- Opened
- March 11, 1959
- Closed
- June 25, 1960
- Performances
- 530
- Previews
- 1
- Theatre
- Ethel Barrymore Theatre
Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 47th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of A Raisin in the Sun 2 more that season
| 2004 | Royale Theatre Revival · Kenny Leon | 88 perf. |
| 2014 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · Kenny Leon | 85 perf. |
Who was in it15 named
Sidney Poitier
Ruby Dee
Ivan Dixon
Lonne Elder Iii
John Fiedler
Ed Hall
Diana Sands
Glynn Turman
Douglas Turner
Lincoln Kilpatrick
Charles Richardson
4 of these 15 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 11 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Lloyd Richards
- Producer
- Philip Rose
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for A Raisin in the Sun at all.
- No show page for A Raisin in the Sun. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.