August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone Directed by Delroy Lindo
Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2025 Addison Street Berkeley, CA 94704)
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All offers for Joe Turner's Come and Gone have expired.
The last date listed for Joe Turner's Come and Gone was Sunday November 30, 2008 / 7:00pm.
Goldstar Member Tips
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renoel on What to Wear
Dress is casual.
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renoel on Where to Park
Park in the garage across the street from the theater on Addison.
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Goldstar Member on Where to Eat
The Downtown is nearby and is great.
14 Goldstar Member Reviews
Barry R.
Fabulous acting and direction, great set. Be in the orchestra to understand the dialogue without straining and see the wonderful facial expressions. program might have done better explaining that there were some fairly non-realistic parts in this realistically staged play.Written on Nov 27 2008
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Jane Super
A very good play with some dynamic acting. A little difficult to understand the dialogue at times, and somewhat overlong. Still, highly worthwhile.Written on Dec 01 2008
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Sue T.
This was a Broadway quality production with top notch actors. Any serious theater lover in the Bay Area should rush out to see "Joe Turner"!Written on Nov 26 2008
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renoel
This is a deeply moving play and the performance was outstanding. It is a complex and carefully crafted play and requires the viewer to enter into a sometimes difficult emotional world. Berkeley Rep did a superb job. Full marks.Written on Nov 27 2008
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More Information About Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Website
http://www.berkeleyrep.org/season/0809/2876.asp
Quotes & Highlights
- “Powerful, joyously musical and chillingly visionary…How far we’ve come…The high of President-elect Barack Obama’s victory had gained deeper resonances from August Wilson’s dramatic depiction of the lives of African Americans just a few generations ago.” --San Francisco Chronicle
- “Riveting…a full scale spiritual tsunami…Mysticism and pragmatism collide head-on across the dining room table of a small boarding house in the Pittsburgh Hills District of 1911…The play is beautifully produced [and] the acting is outstanding.” --Contra Costa Times
- “A stirring revival of the playwright’s masterpiece…In the wake of Tuesday’s historic election, the plays of August Wilson sing with a renewed sense of urgency…The understated poetry of the play still fills us with truth and longing, the ache of the blues.” --San Jose Mercury News
- “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is an intoxicatingly hopeful blend of history, mystery, myth, ribald humor, music, dance, and enduring faith.” --Chicago Reader
- “Wilson gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed…The clash between the American and the African shakes white and black theatergoers as violently as it has shaken the history we’ve all shared.” --New York Times
Description
Delroy Lindo came to prominence with his Broadway performance in Master Harold…and the Boys, and he reinforced his reputation with major roles in films such as The Cider House Rules, Get Shorty and Malcolm X. In his third outing as a director, Lindo works on a bigger stage: Berkeley Rep’s state-of-the art Roda Theatre.
August Wilson’s countless accolades include two Pulitzer Prizes, the Tony Award for Best Play, two Drama Desk Awards, an Olivier Award and eight prizes for Best Play from the New York Drama Critics Circle—including one for Joe Turner’s.
About the Ticket Supplier: Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Known for its amazing and adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a home for emerging and established artists since 1968. With two stages and a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep premieres exhilarating new plays and reimagined classics. In the last five years alone, the company has helped send five shows to Broadway: Green Day's American Idiot, Bridge & Tunnel, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Passing Strange and Wishful Drinking. Come see tomorrow's plays today at Berkeley Rep.
Berkeley Rep operates two performance spaces: the Roda Theatre, a state-of-the-art 600-seat proscenium theatre, and the intimate, 400-seat Thrust Stage. The Theatre is located in the heart of downtown Berkeley's arts district, just a half block from the Berkeley BART station, near lots of restaurants, cafe, pubs, and cool retailers.