March 1988

August Wilson's 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone,' set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911 and depicting the spiritual dislocation of the Great Migration generation, opens on Broadway to critical acclaim, further establishing Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle as the defining dramatic work of Black American experience.

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, set in Pittsburgh in 1911 and dealing with the spiritual aftermath of the Great Migration, opens on Broadway to critical acclaim, further establishing Wilson as the preeminent American playwright of his generation.