Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' PURPOSE Wins 2025 Tony Award for Best Play
Purpose is now running at the Hayes Theater.
Jun. 08, 2025
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Purpose has won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Directed by Phylicia Rashad, Purpose stars features two-time Tony Award nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Steppenwolf ensemble member Jon Michael Hill, Steppenwolf ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director Glenn Davis, Steppenwolf Ensemble member Alana Arenas, and Tony Award winner Kara Young.
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.
