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"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling,...

"Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already grappling with some serious questions of identity, when the ghost of his father shows up in their backyard, demanding that Juicy avenge his murder. It feels like a familiar story to Juicy, well-versed in...

"The setting is Lousiville, Kentucky in the 1970s. The Telfairs are four generations of an African American family of stonemasons. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that 'true masonry is not held together by cement but ... by the warp of the world.' Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken--or dishonored--the family...

Michael Kyle longs for a traditional life, but his day trader wife Janet and three brooding children make his dream just that, a dream. Watch how it all began with the complete first season.

In season four, the shows explosive twists and turns resume, as Empire Entertainment embarks on a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Lucious makes his first public appearance after the explosion in Las Vegas, and all members of the Lyon family have their own interests in Lucious regaining his physical and mental faculties.

One of the most popular programs in the history of television. Happily married couple Cliff and Claire Huxtable have aspirations of raising their five children in an uplifting, positive environment. Features all 25 episodes from Season Five.

Eve's family seems perfect until she catches her doctor father more than just examining one of his patients and Eve's tormented by the family secrets that come out.

The final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce, while completing Laura and Eddie Winslow's journeys to maturity. Its wedding bells as Laura accept, but with dueling proposals from Steve and his clone, Stefan, the question is, for whom? Meanwhile, Myrtle makes her final play for Eddie, Steve's cousin Original Gangsta Dawg wreaks havoc, and Halloween signals the return of evil dummy Stevil , now joined by Carlsbad a disturbing, diminutive...

Accidentally meeting after a 14-year separation, teenage twins Tia and Tamera vow never to be parted again. Convincing their adoptive single parents that both families would be better off living together under the same roof, the girls begin their new lives, together again for the first time since birth.

When Madea and her family travel to Georgia for a reunion, things take a sudden unexpected turn when they end up planning a funeral which leads to the discovery of family secrets.