NEW YORK (AP) — The great playwright Arthur Miller rarely changed a word of his plays during rehearsals. The equally great Tennessee Williams rewrote furiously until he had to stop. Which model does ...

This story was originally published in May 2025. On June 8, Purpose won the Tony Award for Best New Play, as well as the award for Best Featured Actress. A series by Adam Moss, the author of The Work ...

In December 2023, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins made his Broadway debut with Appropriate—a family drama laced with dark comedy about the gruesome secrets rotting away on a neglected Arkansas ...

Playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins made history at this year’s Tony Awards as the first Black playwright since 1987 to win for Best Play with his production “Purpose.” Set in Chicago, the Pulitzer Prize ...

NEW YORK — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was anxiously amused about how he would be portrayed in this profile. Would I mention that twice when we met at the Hayes Theater, in the days after the playwright’s ...

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 ...

Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins discusses his Tony Award-winning show “Purpose.” Playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins made history at this year's Tony Awards as the first Black playwright since 1987 to ...

Jacobs-Jenkins has long articulated an especially vivid self-awareness. In his breakthrough “ An Octoroon,” the narrator is a Black playwright named BJJ who paints himself in whiteface and tells the ...