NewsPHOTO CALL: Garrett Morris, Angela Bassett, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and More Celebrate L.A. Opening of Joe Turner's Come and GoneAugust Wilson's Joe Turner’s Come and Gone officially opened May 8 following previews that began April 24 at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center.
The play, according to press notes, "is set in 1911 in a Pittsburgh boarding house, where tenants come and go, forming a community that is altered time and time again. The daily routine of meals, conversation, gossip, arrivals and departures, and the changes that occur within this fluid grouping of people, is set against a great tide of Americans of African descent, only 50 years out of bondage, who are moving toward the industrial cities of the North in search of economic opportunity, lost family members and new beginnings." Here's a look at the LA Opening:
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Garrett Morris, Angela Bassett, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and More Celebrate L.A. Opening of Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Garrett Morris, Angela Bassett, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and More Celebrate L.A. Opening of Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson's Joe Turner’s Come and Gone officially opened May 8 following previews that began April 24 at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum at the Los Angeles Music Center. Read the Playbill.com story.
The piece stars Obie Award winner Jodie Markell as propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose work in service of the Nazis defined the visual identity of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
The Broadway alum's golden vocals brought Old Deuteronomy from Cats and the Lion from The Wiz to life, along with Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
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