By Samuel L. Leiter March 22, 2025. Family dramas are theatrical staples, especially the kind where relatives gather from far and wide for some unifying function, like a holiday, death, or birthday. Often, a contentious dinner forms a central scene, as in August: Osage County (2007) or this season's Cult of Love. In Tony-winning Branden Jacobs-Jenkin's Purpose, now at the Helen Hayes Theater, such a scene, at a bela…
SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:02AM on March 22, 2025