THE LEGENDARY APOLLO JOINS THE PRODUCING TEAM OF AUGUST WILSON’S “JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE”
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THE LEGENDARY
APOLLO
MAKES HISTORIC MOVE TO BROADWAY
JOINING PRODUCING TEAM OF
AUGUST WILSON’S
“JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE”
STARRING
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD® WINNER AND ACADEMY AWARD®,
TONY AWARD®, SAG AWARD®
& EMMY AWARD® NOMINEE
TARAJI P. HENSON &
SIX-TIME NAACP IMAGE AWARDS® WINNER
CEDRIC “THE ENTERTAINER”
DIRECTED BY
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD AND FOUR-TIME EMMY AWARD WINNER
DEBBIE ALLEN
New York, NY (October 23, 2025) – Today, producer Brian Anthony Moreland announced that the legendary Apollo would make an historic move to Broadway and join the producing team of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. This production marks the Broadway producing debut of The Apollo.
Executive Producer of The Apollo Kamilah Forbes said, “The Apollo believes that art has the power to transform—whether through a song, a note, or a story told from the stage. Partnering on Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is both a homecoming and a new chapter, uniting the heartbeat of Harlem with the brilliance of Broadway.”
Producer Brian Anthony Moreland said, “To have an iconic institution such as The Apollo join our producing team is a thrill. Having their support means so much and we’re now more excited than ever to bring this show to Broadway next Spring.”
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will be directed by Golden Globe Award and four-time Emmy Award winner Debbie Allen and star Golden Globe Award® winner and Academy Award®, Tony Award®, SAG Award®, and Emmy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson, six-time NAACP Image Award® winner Cedric “The Entertainer,” Tony Award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Tony Award and Grammy Award® nominee Joshua Boone.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone will return to Broadway in Spring 2026, with performances set to begin at a Shubert Theatre to be announced. Complete casting, the full creative team, and specific production dates will be revealed at a later time.
Set in 1911, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone unfolds in a Pittsburgh boarding house run by the steadfast Seth and warm-hearted Bertha Holly. Their home offers refuge to Black travelers navigating the upheaval of the Great Migration. Among them is Herald Loomis, a man on a quest to reunite with his lost wife—and to reclaim the self he was forced to abandon during seven years of forced labor under Joe Turner.
As buried traumas surface and spiritual forces awaken, Loomis’s journey becomes one of profound self-discovery. Around him, others seek connection, direction, and healing from a past marked by pain. Through poetic dialogue and vivid, deeply human characters, Wilson crafts a powerful meditation on identity, resilience, and renewal.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is the second installment in Wilson’s American Century Cycle — his groundbreaking ten-play series chronicling the African American experience in each decade of the 20th century. This long-awaited revival brings Wilson’s enduring legacy back to Broadway, reaffirming the urgent, timeless relevance of his work.
Casting is by ARC Casting and 101 Productions, Ltd. are serving as general managers.
To sign up for more information, visit www.JoeTurnerBway.com.
ABOUT THE APOLLO
The legendary Apollo—the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging artists and launching legends. Since its founding, The Apollo has served as a center of innovation and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world. In 2024, The Apollo opened The Apollo Stages at the Victoria Theater, marking the first ever expansion and renovation of The Apollo in its 90+ year history. In 2025, The Apollo embarked on its first major full-scale renovation and restoration of its Historic theater to modernize and upgrade its facilities and artist and audience spaces and is expected to be completed in 2026.
With music at its core, The Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes the world premiere of the theatrical adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and the New York premiere of the opera We Shall Not Be Moved; special programs such as the blockbuster concert Bruno Mars Live at the Apollo; 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella; and the annual Africa Now! Festival. The non-profit Apollo is a performing arts presenter, commissioner, and collaborator that also produces festivals, large-scale dance and musical works organized around a set of core initiatives that celebrate and extend The Apollo’s legacy through a contemporary lens, including the Women of the World (WOW) Festival as well as other multidisciplinary collaborations with partner organizations.
Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, The Apollo has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres—including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at The Apollo are Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, H.E.R. D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Jazmine Sullivan, Machine Gun Kelly, and Miri Ben Ari; and The Apollo’s forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy. For more information about The Apollo, visit www.ApolloTheater.org.
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