Video: Go Inside Opening Night of JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE
Joe Turner's Come and Gone stars Taraji P. Henson, Cedric “The Entertainer”, and more.
The final play of the 2025/26 season opened just last week! August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, directed by Debbie Allen, officially arrived on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
"The biggest thing is to know that we've got veterans on the stage, we've got people who are big time movie stars," said Cedric "The Entertainer" on opening night. "We've been having a great time and it's been a family and it's been that everydayness of working with each other and knowing that you gotta count on each other to make this play come alive."
Taraji P. Henson is making her Broadway debut as 'Bertha Holly.' "I love theater, I love the process... because the picture's never locked," she explained. "Every night you get a different audience. Every night the performance is different. You get to explore this character over and over. By the time we finish, I won't be like, 'Oh should have tried this, I should have tried that.' A lot of times your performances, you have no control over them in television and film because they're edited. So this is a chance for me to live and breathe this character every night untouched."
Joe Turner's Come and Gone also stars Ruben Santiago-Hudson as 'Bynum Walker,' Joshua Boone as 'Herald Loomis,' Maya Boyd as 'Molly Cunningham,' Savannah Commodore and Dominique Skye Turner sharing the role of 'Zonia Loomis,' Abigail Onwunali as 'Martha Loomis,' Bradley Stryker as 'Rutherford Selig,' Tripp Taylor as 'Jeremy Furlow,' Christopher Woodley and Jackson Edward Davis sharing the role of 'Reuben Scott,' and Nimene Sierra Wureh as 'Mattie Campbell.' Understudies for the production are Jasmine Batchelor, Rosalyn Coleman, Thomas Michael Hammond, Cayden McCoy, and Kevyn Morrow.
Watch in this video as the full company walks the red carpet on opening night!
