One of August Wilson's shatteringly beautiful Pittsburgh Cycle plays, Joe Turner's Come and Gone follows the stories of inhabitants of a black boardinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1911. The characters include a cranky proprietor and his nurturing wife, a conjure man, a traveling peddler, and one of Wilson's most haunting characters, Herald Loomis, a man searching for his lost wife to make him whole.  Each denizen of the boardinghouse has a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to the urban present.