Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
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August Wilson’s 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house is a pressure cooker of the Great Migration, and this production handles the weight with the gravity it deserves. Taraji P. Henson makes her Broadway debut as Bertha Holly, anchoring a cast that includes Cedric the Entertainer and Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Debbie Allen keeps the pacing tight, refusing to let the play drift into sentimentality despite the heavy history on stage. It is a grueling, necessary look at lost souls searching for identity in a city that barely notices them. If you prefer your theater to have actual stakes rather than just jazz hands, go.
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