Playbill for A Raisin in the Sun with insert essay ‘Sweet Lorraine'
date: label: Date
content: April 2014
name: label: Published by
content: Playbill, American, founded 1884
label: Written by
content: James Baldwin, American, 1924 - 1987
label: Printed by
content: Unidentified
label: Edited by
content: Blake Ross
label: Subject of
content: Lorraine Hansberry, American, 1930 - 1965
label: Subject of
content: Kenny Leon, American, born 1956
label: Subject of
content: Denzel Washington, American, born 1954
label: Subject of
content: LaTanya Richardson Jackson, American, born 1949
label: Subject of
content: Sophie Okonedo, British, born 1968
label: Subject of
content: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, American, founded 1928
notes: label: Description
content: Playbill magazine (2015.64.14.1), April 2014, featuring the play, "A Raisin in the Sun" written by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Kenny Leon, starring Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson, and Sophie Okonedo, and performed at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York 2014. The top third of the cover is the masthead, a yellow rectangular field with black type with the magazine's title, [PLAYBILL ®] above the text [ETHEL BARRYMORE THEATER]. Below the masthead and outlined with a Kente cloth border, is a black-and-white image tinted blue of a young boy on a street. The boy walks past a row of receding buildings seen in the upper right quadrant to the upper left. The boy is pictured on the right side near the lower corner. He holds something to his mouth in his proper left hand and holds books under his proper right arm. Behind him, centered in the image, is a woman wearing a long coat, carrying an umbrella on her proper left arm. Overlaying the image is a narrow, a Kente cloth outline of a circle. In the lower third of the image, justified on the left side, is orange text with the title of the play, which is also the main coverline, [a RAISIN / in the SUN]. Below the image at the bottom is a small yellow rectangle with a website in black text. The back cover features an ad for Gucci cologne. The magazine has fifty-two (52) pages.
label: Description
content: A tri-folded pamphlet of the essay "Sweet Lorraine" (2015.64.14.2) about Lorraine Hansberry, written by James Baldwin. Printed on semi-gloss paper, the pamphlet is navy blue with stylized, Kente cloth borders throughout. On the front in the upper right corner is a circular, black-and-white image of Lorraine Hansberry. Overlapping the image is white block text [SWEET / LORRAINE]. Below the title is the byline in orange text, [BY JAMES BALDWIN] followed by a line of white text that reads [THAT'S THEY WAY I ALWAYS FELT ABOUT YOU, AND SO / I WON'T APOLOGIZE FOR CALLING HER THAT NOW.]. Below the text and byline is the beginning of Baldwin's essay in white text. The inside of the pamphlet the essay continues and features four (4) circular black and white images of cityscapes. In the lower left corner of the back page is an additional black-and-white image of Hansberry. Above and around the image are the final paragraphs of the essay. [ROTATION]
label: Description
content: A narrow cell phone reminder flyer (2015.64.14.3) with navy blue background with a narrow, stylized Kente cloth border, printed on glossy paper. Covering the whole of flyer is block text of varying sizes. The text is in orange and white, justified on the right side and reads [DEAR FRIENDS, / PLEASE / PROTECT YOUR / OWN GOOD TIME / AND THAT OF YOUR / NEIGHBOR BY / TURNING / OFF YOUR / CELL/ PHONE / NOW. / THANK YOU.]. The reverse is blank.
label: Transcription Center Status
content: Transcribed by digital volunteers
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Actors
label: Topic
content: Broadway Theatre
label: Topic
content: Domestic life
label: Topic
content: Drama (Theatre)
label: Topic
content: Families
label: Topic
content: Poverty
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Theatre companies
label: Topic
content: Tragedy (Theatre)
label: Topic
content: Urban life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.64.14.1-.3
objectType: label: Type
content: theater programs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2015.64.14.1 Closed): 8 9/16 × 5 3/8 × 3/16 in. (21.7 × 13.7 × 0.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2015.64.14.1 Open): 8 9/16 × 10 3/8 × 7/8 in. (21.7 × 26.3 × 2.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2015.64.14.2 Closed): 9 × 4 1/4 (22.8 × 10.8 × 0.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (2015.64.14.2 Open): 9 × 12 5/8 × 1 in. (22.8 × 32 × 2.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: L x W (2015.64.14.3): 9 1/16 × 4 1/16 in. (23 × 10.3 cm)