Director C. Rosalind Bell's staging completes the Broadway Center's production of all 10 plays in Wilson's "Pittsburgh Cycle," one for each decade of the 20th century. (Famous installments include Fences and The Piano Lesson, each of which won a Pulitzer Prize.) Joe Turner's Come and Gone demands nuanced work from actors from recognized veterans to Seahawks green. Mark Peterson does glowering, memorable work here as Loomis, though he still has a tendency to amble listlessly below the waist. Hollis Belt is terrific as Bynum, Joshua Dansby charismatic as Jeremy. G. To'mas Jones builds his Seth out of externals, a method reminiscent of sketch characters on SNL or Chappelle's Show. That's fine; it does the job needed, especially as Seth gets the funniest lines. For a show about poverty, depression, and the search for identity in a disenfranchised culture, this production offers a surprising bounty of laughs.

Read Christian Carvajal's full review of Joe Turner's Come and Gone in the Music and Culture section.

JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE, 7:30 p.m. Saturday (and Friday, Feb. 21), 3 p.m. Sunday, through Feb. 23, Theatre on the Square, 915 Broadway, Tacoma, $19-$32, 253.573.2507