A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of three generations of a family living and struggling together under one roof. The Youngers--Mama (The Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad), her children Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan) and Walter Lee (hip-hop mogul Sean Combs), and his wife Ruth (three-time Tony winner Audra McDonald) and their son Travis--live on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. It is a place in which dreams, like the raisin in the Langston Hughes' poem from which the play takes its title, wither and die if nothing is done with them.
A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of three generations of a family living and struggling together under one roof. The Youngers--Mama (The Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad), her children Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan) and Walter Lee (hip-hop mogul Sean Combs), and his wife Ruth (three-time Tony winner Audra McDonald) and their son Travis--live on Chicago's South Side in the 1950s. It is a place in which dreams, like the raisin in the Langston Hughes' poem from which the play takes its title, wither and die if nothing is done with them.