NEW YORK — The first time Phylicia Rashad realized what she wanted to do with her life, she was making her way to the exit of a bustling auditorium. This was November 1959, in Houston, after a ...

Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...

Nearly every family issue is fully unpacked in Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ exceptional drama that makes its Broadway ...

Left to right: Alana Arenas (Morgan), Kara Young (Aziza), Harry Lennix (Solomon), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Claudine), Glenn Davis (Junior) and Jon Michael Hill (Naz) perform in a Broadway ...

Purpose, a new play now on Broadway, has all the trappings of the classic family drama: A powerful and aging patriarch, wayward sons, a strategizing wife and a watchful outsider. It could be about ...