August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Set in a Black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this tender and human drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences is an installment in the author’s American Century Cycle, which chronicles Black life in every decade of the 20th century. Each denizen of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery, as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young man up from the South, and a mysterious stranger searching for his wife.

After premiering at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut in April 1986, Joe Turner's Come and Gone premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 27, 1988. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the production featured Kimberleigh Aarn, Angela Bassett, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Parnell Habersham, Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Jamila Perry, Bo Rucker, Raynor Scheine, Kimberly Scott and Mel Winkler.