When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." The story tells of a Black family's experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances...

For the first time in years, all the Whitfield kids have come home to spend the holiday with Ma'Dere and her boyfriend Joe. And each has brought plenty of baggage along with them. As the lights are hung and the tree is trimmed, secrets are revealed and ties are tested. But as their lives converge again, they join together to rediscover and celebrate the wonderful gift of family.

A young woman's in-laws hire a 'player' to date her and keep her away from them. While the 'player' had just planned to make some money, he didn't plan on falling in love.

In 1950s Pittsburgh, a black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.

The final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce, while completing Laura and Eddie Winslow's journeys to maturity. Its wedding bells as Laura accepts, but with dueling proposals from Steve and his clone, Stefan, the question is, for whom? Meanwhile, Myrtle makes her final play for Eddie, Steve's cousin, Original Gangsta Dawg wreaks havoc, and Halloween signals the return of evil dummy Stevil now joined by Carlsbad a disturbing, diminutive...

Sunday dinner at Mother Joe's is a mouth-watering, 40-year tradition. As seen through the eyes of her grandson Ahmad, love and laughs are always on the menu, despite the usual rivalries simmering between his mom Maxine and her sisters Teri and Bird. But when serious bickering starts to tear the family apart, the good times suddenly stop. Now it's up to Ahmad to get everyone back together and teach them the true meaning of soul food.

Laugh and cry along with some of writer-director Tyler Perry's greatest characters, including hilarious Hattie, uproarious Aunt Bam, and Perry himself as lively matriarch Madea. Spanning over a decade of Perry's stage productions, these nineteen plays bring together his singular and heartfelt stories of love, pain, and joy in one unforgettable collection.

In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea has two troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria.

Andre "Dre" Johnson has it all...a job as a top ad exec, a beautiful doctor wife, four great kids and a lovely, well-appointed house in the suburbs. And he's not about to let his family forget how they got there. Keeping cultural identity alive is not without its challenges for this man on a mission. With perpetual pushback from clueless coworkers, an outspoken father, and even the wife and kids, Dre's efforts to enlighten are exhausting. Forced to...

Jamie Foxx stars as Jamie King, a young man striving for stardom while working at his family's Los Angeles hotel, honing his stand-up skills.