Overview
- August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone has opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre under director Debbie Allen.
- The cast features Taraji P. Henson as Bertha Holly, Cedric the Entertainer as Seth Holly, Joshua Boone as Herald Loomis, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Bynum Walker.
- The limited engagement is scheduled through July 26 after an early extension was announced.
- Opening-night coverage highlights high-profile guests including Misty Copeland, LL Cool J, Tyler Perry, Todrick Hall, Kandi Burruss, and Leslie Uggams.
- Set in a 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house during the Great Migration, the play is the second work in Wilson’s ten-part American Century Cycle.