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,
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