Seven years after her first turn as Ruth Younger, actor Isa Miles is stepping back into one of American theater’s most enduring roles. “A Raisin in the Sun,” presented by the Black Renaissance Arts Collective, opens April 24 at the Porter Sanford Arts and Community Center in Decatur as the first production of the company’s 2026 spring season.
The last time Isa Miles played Ruth Younger, it was 2019. The production ran at New Theatre, and audiences responded to how sharply the 1959 drama still cut. Now, with a mostly new cast and director Nick Starr ready to go deeper, Miles said she is, too.
“Obviously, 2019 was pre-pandemic,” Miles said. “I think we’ve all lived a little in the past seven years. And I think I bring a little bit more of an understanding of disappointments and heartbreak and things not going exactly the way you think.”
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