Monday, June 30, 2025

B'way Update: Joe Turner Returns

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone will return to Broadway next spring at a Shubert theater to be announced. Golden Globe winner and Tony, Oscar and Emmy nominee Taraji P. Henson (Netflix's Straw) and 6-time NAACP Image winner Cedric the Entertainer will star as Bertha and Seth Holly, the owners of a boarding-house in 1911 Pittsburgh. Bertha and Seth host numerous guests including the mysterious Herald Loomis who is searching for his wife from whom he was separated during slavery. Emmy and Golden Globe winner and Tony nominee Debbie Allen will direct. Henson was a producer of Jaja's African Hair Braiding and Joe Turner marks her Broadway acting debut. Cedric the Entertainer was last seen on Broadway in American Buffalo in 2008. Further casting will be announced at a later date.

Ed Hall and Bo Rucker in
Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988)
Credit: Joan Marcus
Joe Turner
opened on Broadway in 1988 and ran for 108 performances. It was nominated for 5 Tony Awards (winning one for L. Scott Caldwell's featured performance as Bertha) and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Lincoln Center Theater presented a revival in 2009 which ran for 69 performances and was nominated for 6 Tony Awards, winning for Roger Robinson's featured performance as Bynum and Brian MacDevitt's lighting. 






2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Summer 2025
July 8--The Gospel at Colonus (Little Island)
July 10--Heathers (New World Stages)
July 17--The Weir (IRT)
July 20--Joy (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
July 31--Masquerade (Phantom of the Opera) (Lee's Art Shop) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Aug. 7--Ava: The Secret Conversations (City Center Stage I)
Aug. 14--Mamma Mia (Winter Garden)
Aug. 18--Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride (Nederlander)
Aug. 21--Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)

Fall 2025
Sept. 6--Galas (Little Island)
Sept. 10--The Brothers Size (The Shed)
Sept. 15--Saturday Church (NYTW)
Sept. 16--Art (Music Box)
Sept. 16--Weather Girl (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 25--The Other Americans (Public)
Sept. 28--Waiting for Godot (Hudson)
Sept. 28--The Honey Trap (IRT)
Sept. 29--Punch (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Oct. 8--Beetlejuice (Palace) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 30--This World of Tomorrow (Shed) (previews begin; opening TBA)
October--The Baker's Wife (CSC)
October--Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 18--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Nov. 25--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Cottonfield
Little Bear Ridge Road
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Practice (Playwrights Horizons)
Queens (MTC/City Center) 
Sugar Daddy
Tartuffe (NYTW)
The Seat of Our Pants (Public)

Winter 2025-26
Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)
Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)
Jesa (Public)
Public Charge (Public)
Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
What We Did Before Our Moth Days

2026
Dolly: An Original Musical
Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)

Spring 2026
April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)
April--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
Dog Day Afternoon
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
The Lost Boys (Palace)
Montauk
My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)
No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)
Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)
The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)

2026-27
Death of a Salesman
Private Lives

Summer 2026
July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)

Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.

2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
The Balusters
Call Me Izzy
Cottonfield
Dog Day Afternoon
Little Bear Ridge Road
Montauk
Oedipus
Punch

New Musicals
Dolly: An Original Musical
The Lost Boys
Queen of Versailles

Play Revivals
Art
Becky Shaw
Fallen Angels
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Marjorie Prime
Waiting for Godot

Musical Revivals
Beetlejuice
Chess
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
The Rocky Horror Show

Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride


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