Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Kris Kollins will make his professional stage debut in the same role that made Prince a ...

The creators of the upcoming stage version of Prince’s Purple Rain have finally revealed who will be playing the lead role of ...

Casting director Taylor Williams discovered newcomer Kris Kollins on social media as part of a nationwide search.

Watch Kollins and co-star Rachel Webb in a first-look rehearsal video, before the production begins its pre-Broadway run in ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has won several prestigious awards, including Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Purpose, Outstanding Play (The Lortels) for The Comeuppance, and Best New American ...

That’s precisely what happened as Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ family drama moved first to the nonprofit Second Stage Theatre’s Broadway house, where a cast that included Sarah Paulson and Elle ...

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 ...

Jacobs-Jenkins, far left, on the “Kindred” set during filming. “In honoring Octavia’s book, I’m trying to find new things to talk about,” he said. Tina Rowden/FX ...

Now in 2022, Hulu and FX ’s Kindred, created by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, marks the first onscreen adaptation of Butler’s works.

Although he has shot to fame fast through plays like “The Octoroon,” Jacobs-Jenkins still is only 32 years old. His “Gloria” was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize.

Transcript: "Capehart” with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins January 12, 2023 By Washington Post Live ...