Joe Turner’s Come and Gone | August Wilson House | Theater | Pittsburgh City Paper

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L-R Mike Traylor, Roosevelt Watts Jr., Marcus Muzopappa, Kevin Brown
L-R Mike Traylor, Roosevelt Watts Jr., Marcus Muzopappa, Kevin Brown

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

August Wilson’s Tony-nominated drama set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1911. The play explores the lives of African Americans at the start of the Great Migration to the North as they seek their own identities and contend with racism and discrimination. Directed by Mark Clayton Southers. An outdoor production at August Wilson House. Matinees are indoors at Madison Arts Center.