Purpose 

 

From the Tony Award®-winning playwright of Appropriate and directed by the two-time Tony Award®-winning Phylicia Rashad comes PURPOSE.

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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.

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“Absolutely not to be missed! Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is the white-hot writer of the moment.  This is the birth of a truly great new play.  I was knocked out!”
— Chicago Tribune

 

“A funny, heady, irreverent excavation into the psyche of an American family.”
— Vogue

 

“A blistering Steppenwolf Production with Explosive, Knee-Buckling Intensity.”
— Chicago Sun-Times

 

“A feast of barely contained familial pandemonium in a twisting drama that’s as rich as blood. Yet, PURPOSE is also sharply, inarguably funny.”
— Chicago Reader