NEW YORK — The best new play trophy at Sunday's Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures during a ...

Written by 2024 Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Purpose has taken some of the evening's top prizes. Jacobs-Jenkins, who won the Tony Award for best revival of a play for Appropriate just ...

NEW YORK — “Purpose,” a drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that was commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the Tony Award for best play in an awards ceremony at ...

Early in the 2025 Tony Awards, host Cynthia Erivo singled out an “up-and-comer” who landed his first nomination this year: George Clooney. The Oscar-winning actor-director was going places, Erivo ...

And look here We got to hang out for *** couple of days and it's been really just like wonderful people. You also just are not around that kind of talent very often to have that many people who are ...

Steppenwolf Theatre's Pulitzer Prize-winning production of "Purpose" took home the Award for Best Play at the 2025 Tony Awards Sunday night. In the acceptance speech, Steppenwolf Artistic Director and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The best new play trophy at Sunday’s Tony Awards went to “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures ...

Glenn Davis, Co-Artistic Director of the Steppenwolf Theatre and Solomon “Junior” Jasper in Purpose, joins Lisa Dent to talk about the success that Purpose has had. Over the weekend, the Pulitzer ...

Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company woke up Thursday morning to boffo Tony Award news as plaudits landed on its world premiere production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drama, “Purpose,” a bold play ...

NEW YORK (AP) — “Maybe Happy Ending,” a rom-com about androids that crackles with humanity, had a definite happy ending at Sunday’s Tony Awards. It won best new musical on a night when Kara Young made ...