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M Ensemble’s Revival Knock Me A Kiss Is Present Day Look at People in Harlem Renaissance
M Ensemble’s current revival of Knock Me A Kiss that it mounted in 2014 has different echoes in 2025.
Hilarious and Heartwarming is Morning After Grace at Pigs Do Fly
By Britin Haller Pigs Do Fly’s Morning After Grace is laugh-out-loud funny, with Carey Crim’s script chock with just about every adult theme imaginable, this is a big feat indeed. It’s early morning in a condo somewhere on Florida’s Suncoast …
M Ensemble’s 1972 River Niger Captures Conflict in Black Lives
M Ensemble Company revives the 1972 award-winning The River Niger capturing a crossroads in Black life in America with a depiction of passionate, intelligent people debating diametrically opposed philosophies of how Black citizens should fight for justice in a racist world.
Marco Ramirez’s Ferocious Propulsive The Royale Roars Through GableStage
Audiences will relish the superb GableStage production of The Royale — Miami native Marco Ramirez’s insightful pile-driving play about boxing, celebrity, racism, race relations and personal responsibility.