Brenda Pressley begins her Broadway run in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Purpose on July 15. She takes over the role of matriarch Claudine Jasper, replacing the production's original Tony-nominated Claudine, LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Pressley began her theatrical career in And Still I Rise, written and directed by Maya Angelou, and has performed on Broadway…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:32AM on July 15, 2025