Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is stepping into a new phase in his career, winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while writing the Prince musical “Purple Rain.” ...

This Broadway season was the highest-grossing ever recorded with shows taking in nearly $2 billion. The popularity was driven by blockbusters and surprise additions like "Purpose" -- a family drama ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has won several prestigious awards, including Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards for Purpose. He also received Outstanding Play at The Lortels for The Comeuppance.

Tazewell won for Best Costume Design in the musical 'Death Becomes Her' & Jacobs-Jenkins earned his for Best Play ...

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 ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Tony-nominated play “Purpose,” set in the Chicago home of a family of Black upper-class civil rights leaders, seems, at first, to be inspired by the political drama ...

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

Another Jersey connection can be found in the 2025 Tony winner for best revival of a play. The award is also a win for Jessica Hecht, who stars in the play as Suzanne. Hecht, a Princeton native who ...

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

Paulson, who won a Tony Award in 2024 for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' earlier play, 'Appropriate,' writes: "There are few things of which I am certain in this life. We don’t ...

The biggest? Best Actress in a Musical ladies Nicole Scherzinger in “Sunset Blvd.” vs. Audra McDonald in “Gypsy,” and the biggest diva showdown in recent memory ended up in victory for the former ...