‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ review: Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson star in uneven revival

Nypost · Apr 25, 2026 · 739 words · By Johnny Oleksinski

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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ review: Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P.

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‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone’ review: Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P.

Why it matters

Henson star in uneven revival JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission.

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At the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street.

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Claim 1: “Taraji P. Henson as Seth’s hardworking wife Bertha.”

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Claim 2: “Nobody bears as much of an emotional burden as Herald Loomis (Joshua Boone), a frightening livewire who arrives at the establishment in the Hill neighborhood with his 11-year-old daughter.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Harold Goodwin (December 1, 1902 – July 12, 1987) was an American actor who performed in over 225 films.
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Claim 3: “Abigail Onwunali is devastating in the end.”

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Claim 4: “Two hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. It was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle, also…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Roger Robinson (May 2, 1940 – September 26, 2018) was an American actor. He was probably best known for playing Detective Gil Weaver in the American crime drama television series Kojak. Robinson recei…
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Claim 5: “Bynum (Ruben Santiago-Hudson), a wise practitioner of folk magic, can quickly sense [Herald's difficult past].”

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web search NEUTRAL — Get everything you need to know about Bynum Walker in Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Analysis, related quotes, timeline.
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web search NEUTRAL — Santiago-Hudson will play Bynum Walker, a spiritual guide and healer, with Boone as Herald Loomis, a man searching for his wife—and for himself—after years of forced labor under Joe Turner.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bynum discerns Herald's past enslavement and guides him through the spiritual reclamation of his identity. His insights are crucial in helping Herald reclaim his "song."
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Claim 6: “Nimene Sierra Wureh’s Mattie, who seems always on the verge of tears, is touchingly hopeless as she begs Bynum to use his witchcraft to bring back a man who abandoned her.”

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Claim 7: “The story is further pacified by David Gallo’s ho-hum set of hanging window frames and freestanding doors that feels built, much like the nomadic characters, to come and go.”

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Claim 8: “That is the unshakable feeling at the revival of his “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” that opened Saturday night at the Barrymore Theatre.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cab…
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Claim 9: “Ghoulish aside from his temper, Herald is looking for his better half Martha, who he was separated from 11 years earlier.”

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web search NEUTRAL — Zonia Loomis is Herald and Martha Loomis’s eleven-year-old daughter and bears a striking resemblance to her mother. Zonia has spent the last four years on the road with her father.
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web search NEUTRAL — While staying in the house, Herald searches for his wife, Martha, whom he’s apparently been looking for after many years, roaming from town to town with Zonia. Who was Mattie Campbell in "Joe Turner's…
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Claim 10: “The 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house it’s set in is run by Cedric the Entertainer?”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pittsburgh ( PITS-burg) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. Located in southwestern Pennsylvania where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form th…
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Claim 11: “Those two sides collide at the end of Act 1 when Loomis starts alarmingly speaking in tongues and collapses to the ground writhing as if possessed.”

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web search NEUTRAL — The exact phrase speaking in tongues has been used at least since the translation of the New Testament into Middle English in the Wycliffe Bible in the 14th century.[9] Frederic Farrar first used the …
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web search NEUTRAL — Here are the 30 most important Bible scriptures on speaking in tongues. Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
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Claim 12: “At the Barrymore Theatre, 243 West 47th Street.”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — LaTanya Richardson Jackson is an American actress. She began her career appearing in off-Broadway productions, before playing supporting roles on television and film. Her performances are credited to …
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Claim 13: “Nobody can top Santiago-Hudson, who has a decades-long history with the late writer and an ingrained understanding of his poetry.”

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