Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play “Beneatha’s Place” has turned legit industry heads as part of an ambitious project at Baltimore’s Center Stage, which is presenting the new title, inspired by “A Raisin in the ...

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play takes a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun on a journey to Africa A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play, ends with its most ...

3 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 Like "Clybourne," "Beneatha" is in two acts, the first taking place in 1959, the second, in the present day; both plays take place in the same ...

A razor-sharp satire from Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, about the power of knowing your history and the cost of letting it go. 1959: The first wave of independence is sweeping across ...

This week, a five-star musical revival opens in the West End, Kwame Kwei-Armah’s response to A Raisin in the Sun opens at the Young Vic, and a new show at the Kiln explores a forgotten woman from ...

Kwame Kwei-Armah's A Raisin in the Sun spin-off takes on topical issues – but feels more like a debate than an organic drama Dominic Cavendish has been writing about theatre and comedy since the ...

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Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play (which he also directs) Beneatha’s Place is a more straightforward proposition than its circuitous history might suggest. It’s the first UK staging of his 2013 work, which ...

Kwame Kwei-Armah’s quasi ‘Raisin in the Sun’ sequel is brimming with ideas, some good, some not so good Kwame Kwei-Armah’s play ‘Beneatha’s Place’ is nominally a Nigeria-set follow-up to Lorraine ...

British born Kwei-Armah, also the a.d. of Center Stage, inventively borrows from both “Raisin” and “Clybourne” to ponder racial divisions on a global scale. From Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play he’s ...

A razor-sharp satire from Young Vic Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, about the power of knowing your history and the cost of letting it go. 1959: The first wave of independence is sweeping across ...