AMERICAN THEATRE: On Easter Sunday, April 6, 1958, Lorraine got up from bed sometime after one o’clock in the afternoon. Her old enemy, depression, had returned. It usually did around holidays. Added to which, Saturday had been a day of heavy celebration, with scotch, because Langston Hughes had given her permission to use a line from his poem “Harlem” as the new title of her play in progress, “The Crystal Stair.” She had been waiting to hear from him since February, when she completed the first draft. Now it could be rechristened A Raisin in the Sun.
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