Plays, August Wilson Nick Wilkes Plays, August Wilson Nick Wilkes

Joe Turner’s Come & Gone

Baron Kelly’s favorite August Wilson play is Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. The actor, director and UW-Madison professor of theater and drama believes this work, the second play in “The Pittsburgh Cycle,” Wilson’s chronicle of the African American experience, is Wilson’s masterpiece. In one drama, the playwright combines all the elements of his other works.

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