Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

“I think we have an incumbent responsibility to respect and honor the elders in our field. And for the Goodman, as the first theater in the world to have produced all 10 plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, it’s an honor and a privilege to revisit these stories in their historically chronological order. It’s easy to forget, amidst the sheer force of his poetry, that August Wilson was also telling the century-long story of the Black American journey in our vividly complex country. To mind, there is no one better than Chuck Smith—whose acclaimed productions over two decades have cemented his expertise—to breathe new life in these works for our current moment.” –SVB