This 2011 photo released by Center Stage shows Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of Center Stage theater in Baltimore, Md. The 46-year-old black British actor, director and playwright launches "Beneatha's Place." The new production will play in rotation with Bruce Norris' “Clybourne Park,” which won a Tony Award last year for best new play. (AP Photo/Center Stage, Richard Anderson Photography)

BALTIMORE (AP) — Growing up in Britain, Kwame Kwei-Armah saw the American classic “A Raisin in the Sun” perhaps more often than any other play, with its powerful portrayal of race relations.

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