Branden Jacobs-Jenkins follows the award-winning "Appropriate" with another rousing family showdown in this rousing drama.

A portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. hangs on the wall of the Jasper family home. It’s the first thing you see when you ...

Alana Arenas, who is appearing in Purpose on Broadway, took us backstage at the Hayes Theatre to share some of her backstage ...

Purpose, the gripping and hilarious new drama from Tony Award winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by ...

The dynastic play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, has matured for New York, but it hasn’t lost its Steppenwolf edge ... relationship to your family.” Purpose is a family drama written ...

Directed by Phylicia Rashad, the new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins heaps various resentments and revelations onto the stage as it observes a fractious family gathering.

Jenkins could have written Broadway’s blistering “Purpose” and had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, theocratic Black family and, ...

ADVERTISEMENT The firecracker-sharp first act of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production ... the characters implicitly reveal what “purpose” means to them, including for Aziza and why ...

Last season, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins had a Broadway hit at Second Stage’s Hayes Theatre with his Tony Award-winning “Appropriate,” a knock-down, drag-out comedy in which a ...