When I reach Jeremy O. Harris, he’s about to be whisked upstate to celebrate his birthday. And this one is hitting a little harder than others, and not just because, like all birthdays, it…
, he’s about to be whisked upstate to celebrate his birthday. And this one is hitting a little harder than others, and not just because, like all birthdays, it’s a blaring reminder of all the mileage that’s been accumulated. No, it’s because Harris is turning 34, the same age that Lorraine Hansberry, the brilliant, barrier-atomizing playwright behind “A Raisin in the Sun, was when she died in 1965.
“America needs this play,” says Harris. “It speaks to our moment. And I haven’t seen this type of deeply detailed classic American writing on Broadway like this for awhile, and I haven’t seen it from a Black femme queer woman. I want high schools around the country to know that Lorraine Hansberry’s imagination was bigger than ‘Raisin in the Sun.’ I want to see a production of ‘Sidney Brustein’ in nearly every regional theater.
Harris quickly enlisted some producing vets, such as Sue Wagner and John Johnson, and set about finding a theater. Space is always a precious commodity on Broadway, but the James Earl Jones Theatre had unexpectedly become available after a stage adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel “Room,”after financing collapsed. In another bit of kismet, Brosnahan and Isaac’s busy schedules freed up.
“The apartment sits on a steel structure and that was all thrown away and there’s a fire escape that was in a dumpster,” remembers Johnson. “One of the walls fell apart as they were taking things down. But all the set dressing was there and we were able to claw back a lot of the steel and salvage the fire escape.”
A few things were different when “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” made the trek across the East River. Most notably, it was roughly 10 minutes shorter. “It felt like our work wasn’t done yet,” says Kauffman. “This play feel like it’s a masterpiece that was lost in plain sight. This piece of Lorraine’s legacy deserves another chapter.”
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