A Raisin in the Sun the Sun" was the first play written by a black woman to be produced on Broadway, as well as the first with a black director, Mr. Richards. Hansberry noted that her play introduced details of black life to the overwhelmingly white Broadway audiences, while director Richards observed that it was the first play to which large numbers of black people were drawn. Frank Rich, writing in "The New York Times" in 1983, stated that "A Raisin in the Sun" "changed American theater forever." In 2016, Claire Brennan wrote in "The Guardian" that "The power and craft of the writing make
A Walk in the Sun (1945 film) A Walk in the Sun (1945 film) A Walk in the Sun is a 1945 American war film based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for "Yank, the Army Weekly" based in England. The book was serialized in "Liberty Magazine" in October 1944. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone, stars Dana Andrews and features Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley and Richard Benedict, with narration by Burgess Meredith. In 2016, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, and