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Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and GoneWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.

“The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.”—Toni Morrison

When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit s...

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