August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, starring Oscar, Tony, and Emmy nominee Taraji P. Henson, and six-time NAACP Image Award winner Cedric “The Entertainer,” has found its Broadway home.
Directed by Golden Globe and four-time Emmy winner Debbie Allen, the revival will play Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre, the same theatre where the play premiered at in 1988. Previews will begin March 30, 2026, with an official opening night set for April 25, for a run through July 12.
Set in 1911, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone takes place in a Pittsburgh boarding house run by the steady Seth and the open-hearted Bertha Holly—a refuge for Black travelers navigating the upheaval of the Great Migration. Among them is Herald Loomis, a man searching for his lost wife...READ MORE