‘Joe Turner’ play dates, times and ticket info
Play: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Playwright: August Wilson
Synopsis: Pittsburgh boarding house owners Seth and Bertha Holly play host to a makeshift family of people who come to stay – some for days, others longer. The residents include proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger searching for his wife. Each denizen of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present.
Director: Sonya McCarter
Cast: The Joe Turner’s Come and Gone cast features local actors:
- Nuniez Philor as Seth Holly, owner of the boarding house
- Tijuanna Clemons as Bertha Holly, Seth’s wife
- Lemec Bernard as Herald Loomis, a resident of the boarding house
- Cantrella Canady as Martha Loomis Pentecost, Herald Loomis’ wife
- Jim Yarnes as Rutherford Selig, a peddler (photo 4)
- Kristoffer Reid as Jermey Furlow, a younger resident of the boarding house
Cicero McCarter as Bynum Walker, a rootworker (photo 5)- Rozaria Brown as Zonia Loomis, Herald’s 11-year-old daughter
- Kavon Simmons as Ruben Mercer, a boy who lives next door
- Ruthgenia Augustin as Molly Cunningham, a young resident woman of the boarding house
- Katherine Oni as Mattie Campbell, a tenant of Seth’s
Play dates and times: March 1-17, with performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays with a new 7:30 p.m. start time and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: Individual tickets to each show are $26, $11 for students or $22 for Alliance members. To purchase tickets or for more information, call the box office at 239-939-2787, visit 10091 McGregor Blvd. Fort Myers, FL or go online at www.ArtInLee.org/Theatre.
Audio-Described Performances: 
An audio described performance will take place on March 17. Reservation of headsets is required prior to the show by calling 239-939-2787.
Talk-Backs: To widen the post-show conversation and discuss what the art onstage means to us as individuals and as a society, the Alliance will facilitate a community conversation, also on March 17. The opportunity is included with ticket purchase.
Sponsors: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is sponsored by Noreen Raney.
Location: 
Foulds Theatre, Alliance for the Arts, 10091 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL 33901.
February 17, 2019.
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Tom Hall is both an amateur artist and aspiring novelist who writes art quest thrillers. He is in the final stages of completing his debut novel titled "Art Detective," a story that fictionalizes the discovery of the fabled billion-dollar Impressionist collection of Parisian art dealer Josse Bernheim-Jeune, thought by many to have perished during World War II when the collection's hiding place, Castle de Rastignac in southern France, was destroyed by the Wehrmacht in reprisal for attacks made by members of the Resistance operating in the area. A former tax attorney, Tom holds a bachelor's degree as well as both a juris doctorate and masters of laws in taxation from the University of Florida. Tom lives in Estero, Florida with his fiancee, Connie, and their four cats.