Joe Turner's Come and Gone to play at the Belasco Theatre

Lincoln Center Theater's new production of August Wilson�s award-winning play Joe Turner�s Come And Gone, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, will play at Broadway's Belasco Theatre.

Joe Turner�s Come And Gone will open at the Belasco on 16 Apr 2009, following previews from 19 Mar for a limited engagement playing through to 14 Jun 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)

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

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