The first commercially successful drama to depict black family life sympathetically and the first play by a black woman to be produced on broadway, it was lorraine hansberry’s a raisin in the sun that won the new york drama critics’ circle award in 1959, and was later made into both a film and a musical. a. it was lorraine hansberry’s a raisin in the sun that won the new york drama critics’ circle award in 1959, and was later madeb. in 1959 a raisin in the sun, by lorraine hansberry, won the new york drama critics’ circle award and was later madec. lorraine hansberry won the new york drama critics’ circle award for a raisin in the sun in 1959, and it was later maded. lorraine hansberry’s a raisin in the sun won the new york drama critics’circle award in 1959 and was later madee. a raisin in the sun, by lorraine hansberry, won the new york drama critics’ circle award in 1959, and later made it