August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone

directed by Donald L. Alsedek

1911. Pittsburgh.

Herald Loomis served seven years hard labor. He now has journeyed with his young daughter in search of his inner freedom and his long-lost wife, Martha.

Seth Holly's boarding house is full of vibrant characters on the move. They are all African-Americans headed for new work, new freedom and new life in the industrialized North. But every one of them is also searching for a new identity, and the kind of connections that make a person whole again.… Show more Their encounters, engagements and discoveries are at the core of one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, the second installment in Wilson's majestic Pittsburgh Cycle.

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