August Wilsons' Joe Turner's Come and Gone
October 14 - November 13, 2022A play by August Wilson
Directed by Lili-Anne Brown
August Wilson’s work returns to The Huntington with his masterpiece Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. At a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, Herald Loomis arrives in search of his lost wife – but first he must regain a sense of his own heritage and identity. A stunning story of spiritual and emotional resurrection, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone pays tribute to a makeshift community that springs up in the Great Migration in this new production helmed by Lili-Anne Brown.
About The Huntington
The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave
A play by August Wilson
Directed by Lili-Anne Brown
August Wilson’s work returns to The Huntington with his masterpiece Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. At a Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911, Herald Loomis arrives in search of his lost wife – but first he must regain a sense of his own heritage and identity. A stunning story of spiritual and emotional resurrection, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone pays tribute to a makeshift community that springs up in the Great Migration in this new production helmed by Lili-Anne Brown.
About The Huntington
The Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave
Please note: face masks will be encouraged for evening performances and required for all matinee performances.
Approximate run time: 2 hours and 40 mins with one intermission
Content advisory: Please note this production contains strobe lights, haze and the smoking of cocoa shell cigarettes. Please click here for a content advisory that addresses thematic elements.
Presented by
The Huntington
The Huntington is Boston’s leading professional theatre and one of the region’s premier cultural assets. Since its founding in 1982, The Huntington has received over 150 Elliot Norton and Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, as well as the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. In the past 36 years, The Huntington has played to an audience of 3.5 million, presented over 200 plays.