Joe Turner's Come and Gone: Lincoln Center announces cast for August Wilson revival

Lincoln Center Theater's has announced the full cast for their new production of August Wilson�s award-winning play Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, opening at Broadway's Belasco Theatre on 16 Apr 2009, following previews from 19 Mar for a limited engagement playing through to 14 Jun 2009.

The cast will feature Marsha Stephanie Blake (Crucible), Chad L. Coleman, Michael Cummings, Aunjanue Ellis (Drowning Crow), Danai Gurira, Andre Holland, Arliss Howard, Ernie Hudson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Amari Rose Leigh and Roger Robinson (Seven Guiatars - Tony nominated).

The play will have sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt and sound by Leon Rothenberg and Scott Lehrer.

Tickets go on sale to the general public on 1 Mar 2009.

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)

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