August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Set in a black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this drama by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, and Fences is an installment in the author’s series chronicling black life in each decade of this century. Each denizen of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery, as well as to the urban present. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South, and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on April 29, 1986. The proudction was directed by Lloyd Richards.