Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Debbie Allen directs the second Broadway revival of August Wilson's 1988 masterwork, which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1988. Set in a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, this mythopoeic drama is the second part of Wilson's ten-play, decade-by-decade survey of African-American life in the 20th century. Joshua Boone (The Outsiders) assumes the central role of Herald Loomis, an ex-convict in search of his missing wife; also in the cast are heavy hitters Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Read the full review here.