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Article: Joe Turner's Come and Gone. (Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- April 18, 1988
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
AMONG other recent openings on Broadway, two in particular promise to be Tony Award contenders at the end of season. They have been greeted with some of the most laudatory adjectives in the English language. So I may be a minority of one, but in my view the flaws and failings outweight the merits in both productions.
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, is the latest play by August Wilson to have emerged from the Yale Repertory Theater under the direction of Lloyd Richards. It is set in a black boarding house is Pittsburgh circa 1911, yet what it really takes you back to is the period several decades ago ...