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The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is named after the acclaimed playwright of "A Raisin in the Sun". She wrote the play while living in Bay Area. Since being founded in 1981, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has mounted productions that have included performances by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Danny Glover and Ntozake Shange. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is the first African-American Arts institution to be located in downtown San Francisco. For thirty years, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has celebrated the African American experience - an American experience - on stage in the San Francisco Bay Area. Described as the most tenacious arts organization in San Francisco, The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has survived numerous obstacles including a declining African American population - the San Francisco population has decreased to 6% - and multiple changes in location. The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has mounted over 100 plays, productions and theatrical events since its genesis. Notable productions include the 1987 production of Ntozake Shange's play "Three Views of Mt. Fuji," which completed a six-week run at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre and preceding an open in New York at New Dramatists.〔FAME CAME FAST WITH `FOR COLORED GIRLS' A LESS-PUBLIC OBIE WINNER WRITES ON; (Edition )Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Jul 28, 1987. pg. 5〕 In 1991 African-American playwright Robert Alexander challenges the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe with a production at The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre examining stereotypes in the cabin of Uncle Tom.〔A Renovated `Cabin' Theater: Those who worked to bring the revisionist version of the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic to the stage call the experience exhausting, painful-and worth it.; (Diego County Edition ) NANCY CHURNIN. Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif.: Oct 16, 1991. pg. 1〕 == Change of Venue == June 23, 2007 - "This June the arts community went into crisis mode with the news that the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre was being kicked out of the former YWCA at 620 Sutter Street that it has occupied since 1988. What's more, San Francisco's oldest and most established African American theatre company was being displaced by another arts organization, the Academy of Art University, which has used the building as a dormitory since 2005 and is currently in the process of buying it. The Lorraine Hansberry's lease was to expire at the end of July, and the academy expected the company to vacate the space by then". "The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre immediately mobilized supporters for an all-out campaign to save the theatre. Links on the company's website provided quick e-mail links to Mayor (Newsom ) and each member of the city's Board of Supervisors, as well as mailing addresses for Academy of Art president Elisa Stephens and various legislators. The theatre counts up to 1,300 e-mails sent from its site as well as unknown numbers of cards and letters. The heads of the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, SFMOMA and other major institutions sent a joint letter urging the mayor to take action."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Newsom To Save Black Theater - Monday Jul. 23 2007 @ 6:00AM )〕 "On June 26 San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a resolution "supporting the Lorraine Hansberry and its contributions to the cultural life of San Francisco and its Theater District" with a unanimous vote of all 10 members present". "The embattled Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has finally found a new home after having spent the past year and a half wandering from one venue to another. The region's leading African American theater company is moving into the theater at 450 Post St., formerly known as Theatre on the Square and then as the Post Street Theatre. Some details of the lease are still being worked out, but Executive Director Quentin Easter says the company will stage the rest of its current season there and "we expect to be there for the foreseeable future." "In a major setback for a company that seemed to be overcoming its difficulties, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre has canceled the rest of its season and withdrawn from its recently announced lease of the former Post Street Theatre. The moves were necessitated by the hospitalization of its founders, Artistic Director Stanley E. Williams and Executive Director Quentin Easter, according to an announcement posted on the company's website. Homeless since 2007, when it lost the 300-seat Sutter Street theater it had occupied since 1988, the region's premier African American company seemed poised to move up the prestige ladder when it announced its move into the 729-seat Post Street space in January. It opened there in February with the gospel musical "Mahalia."〔Lorraine Hansberry Theatre to close for season Theater - April 09, 2010|By Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic (SFGate.com)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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