Main content

Kwame Kwei-Armah

chooses the play Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

Fact title Fact data
Actor, Director and Writer
Plays include Elmina's Kitchen and Statement of Regret. Acted in ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½1's Casualty 1999 - 2004. Awarded OBE in 2012. Now Artistic Director of Centerstage, Baltimore.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

Kwame Kwei-Armah chooses Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984), a play by August Wilson (1945 - 2005) and the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle. Presented by Mark Lawson.

From the Archive

August Wilson

Playwright August Wilson talks to Mark Lawson about his career.

F

James Earl Jones

James Earl Jones on starring in Wilson's play about baseball, Fences. Presented by Rana Mitter.

F

l

Paulette Randall

Theatre director Paulette Randall on the female characters in Wilson's play Gem of the Ocean.

F

Kwame Kwei-Armah

Kwame Kwei-Armah on why he underwent 18 interviews to get his new job at Centerstage, Baltimore.

F