Overview
The live video webcast of this reading is not available for on-demand viewing. Select plays will air on WNYC and public radio stations across the country in spring of 2015, and audio will be available for on-demand streaming here on our website.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in Pittsburgh in the 1910’s. The play chronicles the lives of a few freed former enslaved African Americans and deals with themes of identity, migration and the conflicts of racism and discrimination.
FEATURING:
SETH HOLLY………………Keith David
BERTHA HOLLY…………..S. Epatha Merkerson
BYNUM…………………….Roger Robinson
RUTHERFURD SELIG…….Raynor Scheine
JEREMY FURLOW………..Jason Dirden
HAROLD LOOMIS………..John Douglas Thompson
MATTIE CAMPBELL………January LaVoy
REUBEN MERCER………..Nile Bullock
MOLLY CUNNINGHAM…..Taraji P. Henson
MARTHA PENTECOST……Rosalyn Coleman
ZONIA LOOMIS………….Alexis Holt
Thanks to our philanthropic partners The Ford Foundation whose mission is to support visionary leaders and organizations on the front lines of social change worldwide and The Jerome Robbins Foundation.
Special permission for this project is provided by the Estate of August Wilson. For more information, please visit www.samuelfrench.com