Playwright: Lorraine Hansberry Director: Patricia McGregor Drama $20-$72 5/21-6/15

It's 1950s Chicago, and for the Younger family, an inheritance check puts everything they know into question. This American classic about a dream deferred was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway and was proclaimed by the New York Times to have, in its world premiere, “changed American theatre forever.”

Tickets and info: (510) 548-9666; calshakes.org