Throughout the month of February, The Broadway Show is celebrating some of the theater industry’s most influential Black artists. This week, the spotlight is on Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Jacobs-Jenkins is a …

The Broadway Show is spotlighting influential artists to celebrate Black History Month. This week: PURPOSE playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins. Get tickets to PURPOSE: https://www.broadway.com/shows/purpose/

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

Second Wind Poetry is a curated open mic with a purpose to reenergize everyone involved. Through powerful voices both new and familiar,…

It's been a busy week on (and off) Broadway! 2025 has officially arrived and the second half of the 2024-25 Broadway season has officially begun. Catch up on all the latest from the week ending February 14, 202…

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 plantation. A…

Broadway.com Managing Editor Beth Stevens talks about the new play PURPOSE with director Phylicia Rashad and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Get tickets to PURPOSE: https://www.broadway.com/shows/purpose/

The New York theater season is kicking into high gear, and The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal is here to cover all the highlights. See what's on tap this week.  Trey Curtis recently celebrated his one-year…

All photos by Curtis Brown. The show: “El Coqui Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom” by Matt Barbot …

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

A new Broadway play is on the way from Tony winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins! Purpose, directed by Phylicia Rashad, is getting ready to begin performances at the Hayes Theatre, where it is set to open on March 17,…

The legendary actor discusses the prophecy that changed his life, his Oscar snub and his upcoming role starring alongside a “complicated” Jake Gyllenhaal in “Othello” on Broadway.

Tony Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate) is back on Broadway with his latest family drama Purpose, beginning performances at the Hayes Theater February 25 and opening March 17. Explo…

Get ready for the Broadway premiere of PURPOSE with Tony® winner Kara Young, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and more.

This week, The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal, is featuring innovative new plays, long-running hits and—of course—Broadway/boy band synergy.  *NSYNC's Joey Fatone is back on the boards as Lance in &…

The Broadway Show is the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the stage…

You can now get a behind-the-scenes look of the Broadway cast of PURPOSE, written by Tony Award-Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and directed by Two-Time Tony Award-Winner Phylicia Rashad. Get a first look at the…

It's been a busy week on (and off) Broadway! 2025 has officially arrived and the second half of the 2024-25 Broadway season is about to begin. Catch up on all the latest from the week ending January 31, 2025 wi…

In just a few weeks, previews will begin on Broadway for Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play, PURPOSE, directed by Two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad. Watch in this video as Jacobs-Jenk…

In just a few weeks, previews will begin on Broadway for Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play, PURPOSE, directed by Two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad. Watch in this video as Jacobs-Jen…

Publisher Macmillan said the book is "a testament to the human spirit and its capacity to endure, evolve and find purpose in the face of unimaginable adversity."

Why has “Show Boat” been renamed “Show/Boat: A River?” The title change turns out to be typical of what’s being billed as a “daring reimagining”  of the 1927 musical. Many of director  David H…

Did you know the real-life Miss Liza Jane performs in the show every night? 👀 The one and only Aziza Miller—who mentored a young @AliciaKeys (!!) —breathes life into Hell’s Kitchen with her soul, heart…

Watch Kecia Lewis be honored as one of The Root's most influential Black Americans, celebrating her incredible career spanning over four decades 🧡 Get Tickets to Hell's Kitchen: https://www.hellskitchen.com…

"The first time I heard this song, I couldn't get over how simple it was. It's call-and response, which for any good protest song, is key. I couldn't believe the density of meaning, the number of layers in this…

The rain couldn't stop this shine! ☀️🗽 Go behind the scenes of our @macys Thanksgiving Parade performance! 🧡 Get Tickets to Hell's Kitchen: https://www.hellskitchen.com/ Cast Album is out now: https…

Sadler’s Wells’ new purpose-built space is a reflection of the booming popularity of the art form in the capital. But is all this success representative of the country as a whole? And if not, why not? It’…

The current production of "the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo)," written by Matthew Barbot and directed by José Zayas, is (as of this release) the featured production of Pregones/Puerto Ri…

"Richly expressive and irresistibly kinetic” (New York Times), Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE celebrates 40 years of groundbreaking dance works melding the traditions and rhythms of the African diaspora with contem…

Olivier; Lyttelton; Dominion; Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonAt the National, Noel Streatfeild’s classic flies while Oscar Wilde’s wit is gorgeously unleashed. Elsewhere, a slavishly faithful take on Th…

This year, HELL'S KITCHEN: The Hit Broadway Musical from Alicia Keys' very own Kecia Lewis recognized as one of The Root's most influential Black Americans, celebrating her incredible career spanning over four …

"Richly expressive and irresistibly kinetic” (New York Times), Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE celebrates 40 years of groundbreaking dance works melding the traditions and rhythms of the African diaspora with contem…

https://playbill.com/article/kara-young-will-star-in-purpose-on-broadway. 2) Terrence Mann to Join 'The Great Gatsby' in January https://playbill ...

Candice Frederick (@candice.frederick.37). https://playbill.com/article/kara-young-will-star-in-purpose-on-broadway Kara Young Will Star in ...

An opening-night date has also been announced for the Phylicia Rashad-directed drama.

The complete cast is set for the Broadway premiere of Purpose, a new play by Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate). Previews begin at the Hayes Theater on February 25, 2025 ahead of a March 1…

Complete casting has been announced for the highly-anticipated Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play, PURPOSE. Check out who has…

LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young are among the complete cast announced today for the Broadway transfer of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Purpose, directed …

The new play is written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and centers on a Black family that has cultivated a powerful political dynasty.

Get Tickets to Hell's Kitchen: https://www.hellskitchen.com/ Cast Album is out now: https://hellskitchen.lnk.to/CastAlbum Follow Hell's Kitchen: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hellskitchenbway Twitter: ht…

HELL’S KITCHEN: The Hit Broadway Musical from Alicia Keys performs ‘Gospel’ and ‘Empire State of Mind’ at the 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! 🔥 Get Tickets to Hell's Kitchen: https://www.he…

Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the American dancer and …

It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoot, a stinging in…

Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAn unlikely crew, including a vicar and two pensioners, sail a dodgy ship on a voyage to honour an explorer. But the sitcom setup fails to deliver much comedy or sense of ques…

Nicole Scherzinger is finally a bona fide Broadway star, opening Jamie Lloyd's reimagined revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard at the St. James Theatre on October 20. "I believe we all have a pla…

As in Ayad Akhtar’s plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. Unfortunately, in McN…

The Place, LondonMoody masses of bodies, a gang of club kids like shamans at a stick-up … this company is always trying something new Matthew William Robinson, artistic director of National Dance Company Wale…

"Act I: No curtain. No scenery. The audience, arriving, sees an empty stage in half-light." Thornton Wilder (Photo: New York Public Library) Audiences accustomed to the realism of Clifford Odetts or the sp…

Adele’s electrifying 10-show residency at the purpose-built outdoor arena at Messe München in August set a new standard in live entertainment, earning a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® title for the Largest Continu…

The Place, London Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir warmly narrates her own story of renewal after feeling her personal and professional life was over Contemporary dance about the menopause? A dancer’s career derai…

Kristen Doherty  Hometown:I was born near the beach in Glenelg, South Australia. I still live in South Australia, but now in the Adelaide Hills with my husband, three daughters, two oodle dogs and two cats. W…

Sierra Leone-born DePrince, who moved to US as a child, danced with Boston Ballet and performed with Beyoncé Michaela Mabinty DePrince, a trailblazer and inspiration to many in the ballet world, has died at 29…

The tense family dinner has long been a trope for American realism. Just off the top of my head, plays that have such a device as a central dramatic event include Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County; Branden J…

Play It Again: Sweeney Todd's "My Friends" For this new series, Jeff has invited me to choose some classic Broadway show tunes and compare versions of these songs from several different cast recordings. Wherev…

Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Founded in 2009, the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA) is a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that transforms the lives and minds of young people in…

John Mulaney in All In; Purpose; Othello By: David Sheward September 9, 2024: Comedian-actor John Mulaney will return to Broadway in All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich beginning performances at the Hud…

It would be silly to dismiss “Hurricane Season” just because the production has no curtain call, and the cast is made to work during the entire intermission, performing a kind of robotic conga line ceaseles…

On July 27, 1982, as editor of Chicago GayLife newspaper, I attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., between government health officials and a group of LGBTQ+ activists and leaders of organizations representing …

Review of the Wednesday, August 21, 2024 matinee performance at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. Starring Sutton Foster and Michael Urie with Brooks Ashmanskas, Will Chase, Nikki Renee Daniels, Ana Gasteyer…

In an interview with Playbill, Jacobs-Jenkins shed light on the inspiration behind the play, noting that the Jasper family is “wrestling with the ...

On August 2, 2024, fans of Adele witnessed a first of its kind experience when performer kicked off a limited run of 10 performances at a purpose built temporary arena. The 80,000-seat outdoor arena constructed…

The show: “Once Upon a Mattress” at the Hudson Theatre. What makes it special:? Another transfer from the New York City Center’s Encores! series to Broadway. Sutton Foster and Michael Urie return but Ana…

‘Purpose’ Set for Broadway Run This Spring, ‘JOB’ Extends, “Mamma Mia 3′ in the Works Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top theatre headline…

Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, Purpose, is coming to Broadway this season. Directed by Two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad in her directing debut, the production will begin previe…

Phylicia Rashad will direct the play, set to open in spring 2025.

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Purpose, written by Tony Award-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, The Comeuppance), and directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad (Skeleton Cr…