About the Show

A luminous revival of August Wilson’s masterpiece—where strangers find healing, hope, and home.

Set in Pittsburgh in 1911, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone unfolds within the boardinghouse of Seth and Bertha Holly, who offer shelter to travelers in search of new beginnings. Their routine existence is disrupted by the arrival of Herald Loomis and his young daughter, whose presence stirs memories, longings, and unresolved histories. Against the backdrop of the Great Migration, August Wilson’s play examines a community caught between the weight of the past and the promise of transformation.

This new Broadway revival features Golden Globe® winner Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures, Empire) and Cedric the Entertainer (CBS’ The Neighborhood) as the Hollys, alongside Tony Award® nominee Joshua Boone (Skeleton Crew, The Outsiders) as Herald Loomis and Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lackawanna Blues).

Directed by Emmy® and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen (Grey’s Anatomy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), the production brings together a celebrated creative team to reexamine Wilson’s enduring portrait of identity, belonging, and the search for freedom.

Critic Reviews (15)

"You must try to see 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone,' because this one play is the key to Wilson's deep mystery, which is, in itself, the key to the American theater."
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"Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: rich, complex, deliberately unhurried (though perhaps a tad too long), and full of deeply layered performances."
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"4/5 Stars! Even the small talk feels epic, and it all leads up to a searing climax that I recalled vividly from the last Broadway revival in 2009. It's just as powerful in this production."
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"Wilson's poetry is richly layered, a dramaturgy of abundant significance. The roots are deep, the canopy wide, and the song in the leaves, especially in the hands of an ensemble like this one, always worth rehearing."
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"The evening concludes with an explosion of emotion that redeems its flaws, and sends us reeling, shaken, into the night."
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"Wilson is most interested in a brooding soul called Harold Loomis...who arrives at the boarding house telling people he has spent years looking for his lost wife and that, without finding her, he has no hope of finding his center."
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"Stunningly depicted and gorgeously acted, 'Joe Turner’s Come and Gone' is a deeply grounded production about identity, home, love and how the horrors of slavery, racism and injustice continue to reverberate through time and across generations, impacting us all."
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"When it comes to August Wilson, nobody can top Santiago-Hudson, who has a decades-long history with the late writer and an ingrained understanding of his poetry."
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