* Robert B. Nemiroff; Broadway Producer of ‘Raisin’

Robert B. Nemiroff, 61, Tony Award-winning Broadway producer of “Raisin.” Nemiroff began as a book and music publisher, but became involved in the theater after his 1953 marriage to playwright Lorraine Hansberry. He adapted “Raisin” in 1974 from her 1959 play called “A Raisin in the Sun” about a Chicago black family. Nemiroff also co-produced Hansberry’s “Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” in 1964, and served as her literary executor after she died in 1965. On Thursday in New York of cancer.