Casting Set for Broadway Revival of Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Casting has been set for Lincoln Center Theater’s forthcoming Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. The play will begin previews at the Belasco Theatre on March 19 and open on April 16, directed by Bartlett Sher.

The cast will include Marsha Stephanie Blake The Crucible, Chad L. Coleman Two Trains Running, Michael Cummings Emancipation, Aunjanue Ellis The Tempest, The Cider House Rules, Danai Gurira In the Continuum, Andre Holland Wig Out, Arliss Howard A Number, The Late Henry Moss, Ernie Hudson The Great White Hope in L.A.; many films, including Ghostbusters, LaTanya Richardson Jackson For Colored Girls Who Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, Amari Rose Leigh guest role on TV’s Law & Order: SVU and Roger Robinson a Tony nominee for Wilson’s Seven Guitars.

Part of Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle depicting the African American experience in each decade of the twentieth century, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone originally opened on Broadway in 1988, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Set in 1911, it 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 filled with memorable characters who aid him in his search for his inner freedom.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will have sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, lighting by Brian MacDevitt and sound by Leon Rothenberg and Scott Lehrer.