See “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” on August 19

Monday, August 19, 2013, at 7 p.m.

Johnny has a staged reading coming up. It is open to the public and free, with donations suggested.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
by August Wilson

The Strand Theatre
543 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester, Mass.

This reading is a part of a series produced by The Emancipated Century, The Boston Black Theatre Collective, and The Trotter Institute and Department of Performing Arts at UMass Boston to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation through the staged readings of 10 August Wilson plays. The readings will be at various venues in Boston. This one will be at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.

Johnny will be reading as Bynam. In 1991, Johnny played Herald Loomis in a production at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in which he worked directly with August Wilson.

For more information about Johnny’s reading, click here. For information about the entire series, join the Facebook group click here.