Review: In Its Return to Broadway, 'Joe Turner' Takes Us Deep Into the Hill District's American Identity

Review: In its return to Broadway, 'Joe Turner' takes us deep into the Hill District's American identity

NEW YORK — A great play should be great again and again, given a great cast, crew and production. Certainly that's true of August Wilson's masterful...

Taraji P. Henson Is Making Her Broadway Debut in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"

Taraji P. Henson is stepping into a powerful new chapter with her long-awaited Broadway debut in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and she’s embracing every electrifying moment of the stage. Though she’s no stranger to theater training, Taraji shared that performing live offers a completely different thrill. Unlike film and television, where reactions come after “cut,” the stage delivers instant energy. For her, it’s all about that real-time connection…

Joshua Boone Meets the Moment in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Back when Joshua Boone was a drama student at Virginia Commonwealth University, he took a class called Intro to Drama. “We read 15 plays in all and there was no acting,” he explains. That’s when he first discovered legendary Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. The powerful works changed him—or, in his words, “planted the seeds” for more. “I just started fantasizing about doing those kinds of plays,” he says. “And I always told peopl…