PURPOSE Wins Tony Award For Best Play
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is on a roll! Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play! Jacobs-Jenkins' play beat out fellow nominees English, Oh, Mary!, The Hills of California, and John Proctor is the Villain.
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black political power and familial duty. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.
Purpose comes to Broadway following an acclaimed run at Chicago’s legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company and is directed by Phylicia Rashad. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Kara Young who has made history as the first performer to be nominated four consecutive years in a row.
