Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Written byAugust Wilson
Date premiered1984
Place premieredEugene O'Neill Theater Center
Waterford, Connecticut
Original languageEnglish
SeriesThe Pittsburgh Cycle
SubjectThe lives of spirited boarders in a lodging house
GenreDrama
SettingSeth Holly's boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911

Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle, also known as The Century Cycle. The play was first staged 1984 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and opened on Broadway in 1989. It received a Broadway revival in 2009.

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