Tag Archives: Roderick Randle

M Ensemble Returns Again To Canady’s Brother of the Dust

Blood may be thicker than water, but Brothers of the Dust at M Ensemble asks whether it’s thicker than land or greed or, crucially, dreams. M Ensemble presented this family drama three years ago with the same director and lead, but that familiarity has paid off with a deeper, more assured and more affecting experience for the audience than the first rendition

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Andre' L Gainey, Athena Lightburn, Brothers of the Dust, Carey Brianna Hart, Darren Canady, Devon Dassaw, Keith C. Wade, Marquise Rogers, Rita Joe, Roderick Randle, The M Ensemble Company | Leave a comment

Motherland Is 2017 Riff On Brecht’s Heroine At Theatre Lab

The best art is a partnership between the creative mind and the viewer. That often requires the audience to expend some effort to get inside the artist’s mind or ethos or style. Witness the first full-fledged production of Allison Gregory’s Motherland at Theatre Lab, a tragedy shot full of the droll street humor.

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Allison Gregory, David Nail, Jordon Armstrong, Jovon Jacobs, Karen Stephens, Kent Barrett, Matt Stabile, Michael H. Small, Motherland. Theatre Lab, Roderick Randle, Shein Mompremier, Troy Davidson | Leave a comment

Ethan Henry & Makeba Pace Give Superb Farewell Performances In M Ensemble’s Fine Fences

Rage and defiance – against racism, against betrayal, against cruelty, fate and death itself – washes out into the audience with a ferocity rarely seen in Florida theater in The M Ensemble Company’s powerful production of August Wilson’s masterpiece Fences.

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Bill Hirschman

Posted in Performances, Reviews | Tagged Chat Atkins, Ethan Henry, John Pryor, Jovon Jacobs, Keith C. Wade, Makeba Pace, Roderick Randle | Leave a comment