The Authors Guild Foundation will present Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Purpose) and Sanaz ...

It’s been a successful few months for 40-year-old writer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and his play, “Purpose,” which won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Senior arts ...

Sunday night was a glorious moment for costume designer Paul Tazewell and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as they added Tony Awards to their extensive collection of accomplishments they have ...

Broadway rewarded adventurous newcomers including Sarah Snook (“The Picture of Dorian Gray”), Nicole Scherzinger (“Sunset Boulevard”) and Cole Escola (“Oh, Mary!”). By Michael Paulson Ahead of the ...

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The best new play trophy at Sunday's Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures during a snowed-in ...

Following six Tony nominations and two wins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama “Purpose is losing its on-stage matriarch. LaTanya Richardson Jackson will perform with the original Broadway cast ...

Branden Jacobs Jenkins chats with THR at the 2025 Tony Awards and shares why it's important for people to see Purpose and why it's important for it to be represented in this Broadway season. 19,824 ...

It's appropriate that the first known use of the term "mash-up" derives from an 1859 play titled "The Octoroon," since Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' contemporary take on that slave-era melodrama is most ...

Pictured (clockwise from left) Harry Lennix, ensemble members Alana Arenas and Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and ensemble member Jon Michael Hill (Photo courtesy of Steppenwolf Theatre ...

Kara Young snagged the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Purpose. In it, she plays Aziza, a Harlem social worker. Her history-making victory marked ...