August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Los Angeles Theatre Center is a journey behind illusions to the reality of blood rituals, “bones people,” haints, conjurers and elusive shiny men.

His girlfriend–the mother of his child–had been threatened right in front of his face. Such disrespect called for swift retaliation.
The inevitable confrontation followed, culminated by a bullet that wound up only an inch from the offender’s heart. The next shot would surely have been fatal had not a friend intervened and persuaded him not to fire.