Jenkins’ “Purpose” won best play, and Kara Young took home the award for best performance by and actress in a featured role ...

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 'Purpose' has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play. Jacobs-Jenkins opens up about his writing process ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is stepping into a new phase in his career, winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose,’ about pressures within a prominent Black family, wins the best new play ...

Branden Jacobs Jenkins chats with THR at the 2025 Tony Awards and shares why it's important for people to see Purpose and why ...

The best new play trophy at the Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” while “Maybe Happy Ending” took home the award for best new ...

This Broadway season was the highest-grossing ever recorded with shows taking in nearly $2 billion. The popularity was driven ...

Purpose,” a drama that was commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the Tony Award ...

"Purpose" made it's pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2024. Young picked up the award for best ...

Waithe and Jacobs-Jenkins discuss how Tony-nominated "Purpose" is in dialogue with Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play "A ...