Tickets on Sale Now: "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words"

Adapted posthumously by her husband, "Young, Gifted and Black" is a compilation of Lorraine Hansberry's - author of the classic "A Raisin in the Sun"- plays, journals, essays, poems and speeches.  

A prolific Black female writer, Hansberry's work was steeped in her experience living through life in the South Side of Chicago after World War during a world war during the depression and the first atom bomb being dropped.  Being personally impacted by racial and political hysteria, cancer, lynching, drug additions and mental illness, among other things, Hansberry's work is rich with examination of the human experience.

*Pay What You Can Preview: Thursday, February 23rd | 8pm | Christ Church Neighborhood House | 20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | BUY TICKETS

*Full Run (Tickets: $20) :Friday February 24, 2012 8pm , Saturday February 25, 2012 3pm & 8pm , Sunday February 26, 2012 3pm | Christ Church Neighborhood House | 20 North American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | BUY TICKETS

*Young, Gifted and Black - Black History Month Finale Program (Tickets $15): Wednesday, February 29th | 8pm | Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104 | BUY TICKETS