Broadway Review: “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Barrymore Theatre (Through Sunday, July 26, 2026)
Joe Turner was real. Brother of the Tennessee Governor, he would swoop down on Black men in the early 1900s – gambling, preaching, just walking down the road – and keep them enslaved on chain gangs for seven years. “They tell me Joe Turner’s come and gone / Got my man and gone” – the women sang it, a blues…