Joe Turner�s Come And Gone: LCT to present August Wilson's drama, directed by Bartlett Sher

Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will present a new production of August Wilson�s award-winning play Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, to be directed by Bartlett Sher.

Previews are scheduled to begin on 19 Mar 2009 and opening night is scheduled for 16 Apr 2009 at a Broadway theatre to be announced.

On behalf of the Estate of August Wilson, Constanza Romero, Mr. Wilson's wife, has joined with Lincoln Center Theater and fellow Seattle-based artist, Bartlett Sher, in welcoming the Broadway return of what "August always said was his favorite of all his plays, Joe Turner�s Come And Gone.�

Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, part of Mr. Wilson's ten-play Century Cycle, which depicts the African American experience in each decade of the twentieth century, originally opened on Broadway in 1988, where it received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and won that year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award.

Set in 1911, it 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.

Sher won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Lincoln Center Theater�s current hit production of Rodgers & Hammerstein�s South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. He was also nominated for Tony Awards for his direction of LCT�s award winning productions of Clifford Odets� 'Awake & Sing!' (2006 revival) and the Craig Lucas-Adam Guettel musical 'The Light in the Piazza.' (2005)

Casting and designers for the production will be announced at a later date.

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