OLLI Theatre Party: Williamstown Theatre Festival, A Raisin In The Sun

Summer 2019
OLLI Theater Parties!
Organized by OLLI’s Performing Arts Initiative Committee

OLLI members are invited to join our 2019 summer theater parties to enjoy a sampling of some of the Berkshires most exciting productions.  We are offering OLLI members discounted tickets and talkbacks before or after the plays with distinguished members of the theater family.

Williamstown Theatre Festival
Raisin in the Sun

Thursday, June 27, 2 PM

Mainstage, '62 Center, 1000 Main Street, Williamstown
Tickets are $63 and will be preceded by a Q & A led by Laurie Savia at 1 PM in the Directors Studio, to the right of the entrance.

To order your tickets call the theatre box office with the discount code OLLI2019R (all caps): 413-458-3253 or purchase online here.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Lorraine Hansberry’s masterpiece, Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner S. Epatha Merkerson and Francois Battiste breathe new life into this American classic.

Lena Younger (Merkerson) and her son Walter Lee (Battiste) are at odds. Lena wants to use her late husband’s life insurance to move her family out of their cramped apartment on Chicago’s South Side. Walter Lee would rather use the funds to start a business and become an independent man. As their dispute intensifies, the powerful and destructive forces of 1950s America come knocking at the Youngers’ front door. Directed by Obie Award winner Robert O’Hara, Hansberry’s fearless interrogation of hope in the face of racial and economic strife is as provocative and powerful today as when it premiered.