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Plays and Players celebrates its centenary season with a play set 100 years ago, but still timely today. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone has been given a powerful production by artistic director Daniel Student. Hardscrabble strangers in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse deal with love and loss, particularly Herald Loomis (Kash Goins), who after seven years of virtual enslavement in Tennessee, roams the North searching for his wife. The play's expansive scope mixes superstitions and spiritual mysteries, tying historical social injustices to larger human questions in an epic, not-to-be-missed tale.
Through Feb. 11, $25, Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, 800-595-4849, playsandplayers.org.



