boarding house
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The great playwright’s drama about a Pittsburgh boarding house comes to Broadway in an uneven production starring Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
The play takes place almost entirely within a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
“Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” arguably the finest work in August Wilson’s 10-play series chronicling the African American experience in the 20th century, is set in a boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2025
Sigurd and his horse were gone, so Anya hurried through the golden morning light to the boarding house.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
