“Theater asserts that all of human life is universal,” the playwright August Wilson wrote. That certainly applies to Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Wilson’s 1988 play set in Pittsburgh during the Great Migration. The story takes place in a boardinghouse run by Seth and Bertha Holly, whose lives are spent sheltering Black refugees from danger and uncertainty. We meet the couple in 1911, around the time Herald Loomis, a man traumatized from his years of enslavement, arrives with his daughter in search of his lost wife. His presence disrupts the boardinghouse’s usual peace. Wilson’s tale of identity, freedom, community, and collective memory now returns in a production—the play’s third on Broadway since 1988—directed by the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Debbie Allen. Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures) makes her Broadway debut as Bertha, Cedric the Entertainer stars as Cedric, and Joshua Boone plays Loomis. —Jeanne Malle