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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ Broadway Review: A Solid Revival

Variety·Aramide Tinubu·about 1 month ago
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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ Broadway Review: Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer Lead Stellar Cast Photo: Julieta Cervantes Nearly 40 years after its debut, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” has returned to Broadway . The second installment in legendary playwright August Wilson’s “The Century Cycle,” “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, grapples with Black life in the decades after Emancipation. Directed by Debbie Allen , the emotionally gripping play is set in a Pittsburgh boarding house. There, Seth Holly ( Cedric the Entertainer ) and his wife Bertha ( Taraji P. Henson in her Broadway debut) welcome boarders searching for salvation, freedom from the oppressive South and new opportunities in the North. However, when a stoic drifter named Herald Loomis (Joshua Boone) and his young daughter, Zonia (Savannah Commodore) arrive on their doorstep, the Holly’s world turns on its axis.…

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