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Branden Jacobs Jenkins chats with THR at the 2025 Tony Awards and shares why it's important for people to see Purpose and why ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is stepping into a new phase in his career, winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while ...
Harry Lennix, ensemble members Alana Arenas and Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and ensemble member Jon Michael ...
This Broadway season was the highest-grossing ever recorded with shows taking in nearly $2 billion. The popularity was driven ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winner and Tony-nominee chats with Vanity Fair about developing 'Purpose,' juggling a new play and a ...
Jenkins’ “Purpose” won best play, and Kara Young took home the award for best performance by and actress in a featured role ...
Tazewell won for Best Costume Design in the musical 'Death Becomes Her' & Jacobs-Jenkins earned his for Best Play for 'Purpose'.
Purpose,” a drama that was commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the Tony Award ...
Waithe and Jacobs-Jenkins discuss how Tony-nominated "Purpose" is in dialogue with Lorraine Hansberry's landmark 1959 play "A ...
Jenkins' Purpose triumphed at the 2025 Tony Awards, securing Best New Play and a rare Pulitzer Prize double. Kara Young made ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a playwright and a professor in the practice of theater and performance studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has been recognized with yet another distinguished ...
Maybe Happy Ending,” a rom-com musical about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday’s ...