Hughes explores the consequences of delayed dreams through a series of vivid and unsettling images, such as a raisin in the sun, a festering sore, and a heavy load.

A 1943 portrait of Langston Hughes shot by Gordon Parks. Between the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926 and the dawn of the Black Arts Movement in 1967, Hughes wrote 16 books of poetry and ...

Just three weeks after the premiere of “A Raisin in the Sun,” King delivered one of his most personal sermons, giving it a title – “ Shattered Dreams ” – that echoed Hughes’ imagery.

These phenomenal Langston Hughes poems are the perfect introduction to the celebrated poet's impressive body of work.

In this great American classic (rightfully enshrined with the best works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and August Wilson), even the stage directions are sheer poetry, writes Page Laws.

The show’s title, “A Raisin in the Sun,” is a nod to Langston Hughes’ famous poem “Harlem,” where Hughes elegantly talks of what occurs when potential isn’t reached, and hope is scant.

And Smith curated the just-released “Blues in Stereo,” a collection of the early poems of the great Langston Hughes, a leader of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance of writers and artists.

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” In 1951, poet Langston Hughes posed these questions, and Lorraine Hansberry answered with a theatrical masterpiece that broke down racial barriers both ...

The play takes its title from Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”: "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun? / Or fester like a sore—And then run?