Joe Turner's Come and Gone

August Wilson’s *Joe Turner’s Come and Gone* returns to the New York stage at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, continuing the playwright’s decade-by-decade portrait of Black life in America. Set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in the early 1910s, it follows migrants and laborers searching for family, identity, and footing in the Great Migration’s wake, under the shadow of a notorious “Joe Turner.” First seen on Broadway in 1989 and revived in 2009, it remains a key entry in Wilson’s Century Cycle. Its plainspoken structure makes room for history to register as lived experience.