Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like ...

Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic ...

The great Phylicia Rashad makes her Broadway directorial debut, with PURPOSE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, opening tonight at ...

Jenkins' family drama centered around a laugh-out-loud dinner from hell, opened at Second Stage's Hayes Theater on March 17.

Purpose centers a powerful Black political dynasty recovering from scandal. The play, deftly directed by Phylicia Rashad, chronicles a weekend with the Jaspers, a legendary family whose patriarch ...

Purpose opened this past weekend on Broadway in New York with a cast that includes some Steppenwolf ensemble members but also ...

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

Broadway’s “Purpose,” by Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, tackles the legacy of the civil rights movement ...