Starring Roger Robinson, winner of the 2009 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play.
"Great works of art often tote heavy baggage. Yet the revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, a drama of indisputable greatness, feels positively airborne."
-- Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Lincoln Center Theater presents a new production of August Wilson's award-winning play Joe Turner's Come And Gone, directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, part of Mr. Wilson's ten-play Century Cycle, is set in 1911, and tells the story of Herald Loomis who, after serving seven years hard labor, has journeyed North with his young daughter and arrives at a Pittsburgh boarding house filled with memorable characters who aid Herald Loomis in his search for his inner freedom.
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In all my many years of going to the theater, I have never before seen such a cast perform so magnificently and eloquently - from the lead roles down to the minor ones. And the physical productions - sets/costumes/lighting are beyond first rate. See it!
rating: no rating · posted on 5/10/2009 at 12:53 PM
I guess you either like August Wilson or you dont. His plays, each set in a different decade and exploring a different part of the black experience in America, can be heart-rending and polemic. Im neither liberal nor black, but Ive been mezmerized by his work ever since seeing and hearing Ma Raineys Black Bottom. Wilsons works are always great theatre. Joe Turners Come and Gone is the first in the series, and brings into focus the first and second generations of Black Americans not born in slavery, but still very much tied down and anguished by the experiences of the past, as they try to build meaningful lives despite that past. This production is strongly acted and very rewarding. A great night of theatre.
rating: no rating · posted on 4/2/2009 at 12:31 AM
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