Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
by Lorraine Hansberry

Name: Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window
Brand: Lorraine Hansberry
SKU: 9780573615412
Rating: 3.69 (378 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 mins 1960s Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Historical Black History Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Tony Award

Nominee: Two 2023 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play

Synopsis

This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of Sidney, a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife Iris, an aspiring actress, and their colorful circle of friends and relations.

Set against the shenanigans of a stormy political campaign, the play follows its characters in their unorthodox quests for meaningful lives in an age of corruption, alienation and cynicism.

With compassion, humor and poignancy, the author examines questions concerning the fragility of love, morality and ethics, interracial relationships, drugs, rebellion, conformity and especially withdrawal from or commitment to the world.

Press Reviews

"Tantalizing... the play was, and remains, as brilliant and pugnacious a punch against liberal inertia as any thrown in real life."
— Jesse Green, The New York Times, 2023

"An extraordinary play, a drama so infused with emotional intelligence, linguistic treasures and the human conditions of dread and longing that it keeps you bolt-upright in your seat for nearly three hours."
— Chicago Tribune

"Sublime... Crackling with ideological argument and loaded with withering observations about American progressivism, Sidney Brustein is thrilling."
— Variety

"Rich, warm, funny, vital and varied... Beautifully written."
— Los Angeles Times

"Shines with humor, trembles with feeling and summons up a vision of wisdom and integrity."
— New York Times

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Alton Scales	—	—	—
Iris Parodus Brustein	—	—	—
Wally O'Hara	—	—	—
Max	—	—	—
Mavis Parodus Bryson	—	—	—
David Ragin	—	—	—
Gloria Parodus	—	—	—
Sidney Brustein	—	—	—

Videos

Director Anne Kaufman on The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

Publication

Publisher Samuel French

Year 1986

Binding Paperback

Edition Rev. stage ed

Pages 143

Place New York

Language English

ISBN-13 9780573615412

ISBN-10 0573615411

LCCN 87138696

LCC PS3515.A515 S5 1986

DCC 812/.54

Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window is a American historical play written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Samuel French in New York (1986).