Playbill Podcast: August Wilson Expert Ruben Santiago-Hudson Trades Notes With Wilson Newbie Joshua Boone

Throughout his life, the legendary and groundbreaking playwright August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling the Black experience, decade by decade, throughout the 20th century; what has been referred to as The Pittsburgh Cycle.

Playbill Podcast: August Wilson Expert Ruben Santiago-Hudson Trades Notes With Wilson Newbie Joshua Boone. Throughout his life, the legendary and groundbreaking playwright August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling the Black experience, decade by decade, throughout the 20th century; what has been referred to as The Pittsburgh Cycle. Joe Turner's Come and Gone takes us to the earliest chapter, 1911, just a few decades removed from the end of slavery, in the middle of the Great Migration, when hundreds of thousands of Black Americans made their way north in search of opportunity and healing. The play unfolds in a Pittsburgh boarding house run by Seth Holly (played in the current Broadway revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre by Cedric the Entertainer), who always seems to have a steady stream of wanderers passing through his doors. His wife,...