Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play “Appropriate” at the Old Globe couldn’t have arrived at a better time. First produced in 2014, then revived last year in a Tony-winning Broadway production, it’s about a ...

Last year, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Appropriate” won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The playwright could very well win a Tony this year for Best Play. With “Purpose,” Jacobs-Jenkins ...

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 deserve ...

The expectations of genre may at once signify an imposing edifice that a playwright might stretch themselves to fulfill, and simultaneously, a familiar model to which they can retreat for comfort and ...

It’s summer in Arkansas and the cicadas are singing. Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling homestead to settle the accounts of the newly-dead patriarch. As his ...

Following six Tony nominations and two wins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama “Purpose is losing its on-stage matriarch. LaTanya Richardson Jackson will perform with the original Broadway cast ...

Some playwrights are as musical with their words as jazz musicians. Maestros of rhythm and tone, their sharp dialogue is full of surprises. They build, they riff and their silences between the words ...

Ahead of the Tony Awards, the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the acclaimed ensemble reflected on the challenges of balancing the many script revisions. By Salamishah Tillet Branden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Elias Williams/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was anxiously amused about how he would be portrayed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “Appropriate” won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The playwright could very well win ...