August Wilson's
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
It is August 1911 as the Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha Holly’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial North in search of work, a new life, somewhere to belong.
In this historic drama, part of 10 celebrated works chronicling the African American experience of the 20th century, two-time Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner August Wilson says, “They arrive carrying Bibles and guitars, their pockets lined with dust and fresh hope.”
With so many forces at work—mystical, emotional, financial—and the looming fear that Joe Turner will spirit them away back to the oppressive South—this unlikely family of strangers must forge new identities together or alone in this extraordinary drama helmed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad (director of last season’s triumph A Raisin in the Sun at the Kirk Douglas Theatre).
Performance Length
Approx. 2 hours and 27 minutes, including one intermission.
Be Aware
Recommended for audiences ages 13+
Children 6 and under who may cry or fidget are never admitted.
Credits
- By
- August Wilson
- Directed by
- Phylicia Rashad
- Scenic Design
- John Iacovelli
- Costume Design
- Karen Perry
- Lighting Design
- Allen Lee Hughes
- Sound Design
- Cricket S. Myers
- Wigs and Hair Design
- Carol F. Doran
- Original Music
- Kathryn Bostic
- With
- Skye Barrett
- Gabriel Brown
- Keith David
- January LaVoy
- Vivian Nixon
- Nathaniel James Potvin
- Raynor Scheine
- Erica Tazel
- John Douglas Thompson
- Glynn Turman
- Lillias White