Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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SHOW INFORMATION

Average of 5 stars from 2 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Apr 16, 2009
Closed Jun 14, 2009

Playing at
Belasco Theatre

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Running Time:
2hr. 50min.
(includes 1 intermission)

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

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.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Belasco Theatre
111 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036

This handsome Broadway theater was built in 1907 by theatrical impresario David Belasco. If you look around when you take your seats, you'll see carved dark wood paneling, glass pilasters and Tiffany stained glass lights that match the stained glass [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The late August Wilson apparently considered Joe Turner's Come and Gone his "most accomplished play." Now that Lincoln Center Theater's revival has opened at Broadway's Belasco Theater, in a remarkable production directed with boldness by Bartlett Sher and acted by a company unafraid of unleashing outsized emotions, there can be little argument of that statement.

Indeed, on the basis of this sympathetically probing treatment, the drama -- albeit one packed with abundant comic flourishes -- can absolutely be ranked alongside the best pieces of American theater ever written. That's not to say, though, that the work -- which was first presented on Broadway in 1988 under Lloyd's Richards' di[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Apr 17, 2009

What are other members saying?

My My My
Just incredible ! So many lessons of life and love....the ending will blow you away.......

Reviewed by nardtruth on Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Joe Turner by Mike K.
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!

Reviewed by mikeone on Sunday, May 10th, 2009