Joe Turner's Come and Gone concludes its limited engagement on Broadway
The Lincoln Center's Tony nominated revival of August Wilson�s award-winning play Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, concludes its limited engagementon 14 Jun 2009. When the play closes it will have played 31 previews and 61 regular performance.
The production opened at Broadway's Belasco Theatre on 16 Apr 2009, following previews from 19 Mar for a limited engagement through to 14 Jun 2009.
The play opened to mostly excellent reviews: "a haunting drama" (newyorktheatreguide.com); "an (almost) unconditional pleasure to watch" (NY Times); "superb production" (NY Post); "beautifully realized in a production that�s been directed with warmth and clarity" (Record); "a production of piercing depth and shimmering beauty." (Variety)
Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, part of 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.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, Joe Turner�s Come And Gone features Marsha Stephanie Blake (Mattie Campbell), Chad L. Coleman (Herald Loomis), Michael Cummings (Reuben Scott), Aunjanue Ellis (Molly Cunningham), Danai Gurira (Martha Pentecost), Andre Holland (Jeremy Furlow), Arliss Howard (Rutherford Selig), Ernie Hudson (Seth Holly), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Bertha Holly), Amari Rose Leigh (Zonia Loomis) and Roger Robinson (Bynum Walker).
Roger Robinson won the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for his portrayal of 'Bynum Walker.'
The creative team features sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt and sound by Leon Rothenberg and Scott Lehrer.
Originally published on