Sher to Direct Broadway Revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Lincoln Center will present a new production of August Wilson’s award-winning play Joe Turner’s Come And Gone this spring. Previews are scheduled to begin on March 19 with an opening night scheduled for April 16 at a Broadway theater to be determined. Bartlett Sher will direct. The cast and creative team for the production will be announced at a later date.

Part of Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle, which depicts the African-American experience in each decade of the twentieth century, Joe Turner's Come and Gone originally opened on Broadway in 1988, directed by Tony nominee Lloyd Richards. It received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and won that year's New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Set in 1911, the play 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, where a cast of memorable characters aid Loomis in his search for his inner freedom.

Sher directed Lincoln Center’s current revival of South Pacific, now playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, and Playwrights Horizons' current off-Broadway production of Craig Lucas' Prayer for My Enemy. South Pacific won seven Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical for Sher.