(2/11/59) Stage: Appeared (as "Joseph Assaqi") in
Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun," at the Blackstone Theatre in Chicago, IL, with
Ruby Dee ("Ruth Younger");
Glynn Turman ("Travis Younger");
Sidney Poitier ("Walter Lee Younger");
Diana Sands ("Beneatha Younger";
Claudia McNeil ("Lena Younger");
Louis Gossett Jr. ("George Murchison");
Lonne Elder III ("Bobo");
John Fiedler ("Karl Lindner") and Douglas Turner and Ed Hall ("Moving Men") in the cast.
Philip Rose and
David Cogan were producers.
Lloyd Richards was the director.[