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August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” was chosen Monday as best new play of the 1987-88 theater season by the New York Drama Critics Circle. “The Road to Mecca” by South African playwright Athol Fugard picked up the award for best foreign play, while Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fairy tale musical, “Into the Woods,” was named best musical. Wilson has won the best play award twice before--once in 1984 for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and again in 1987 for “Fences.”