Musical

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

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At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, *Joe Turner’s Come and Gone* is presented as a musical built on August Wilson’s drama, set in 1911 inside a Pittsburgh boardinghouse shaped by the Great Migration. Men and women arrive carrying work histories, missing family, and the aftereffects of illegal enslavement under “Joe Turner,” searching for steadier names and futures. First produced in the mid-1980s and later reaching Broadway, it remains a key chapter in Wilson’s century-spanning chronicle of Black life. Its clearest achievement is how everyday talk becomes historical record.