Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and LaTanya Richardson Jackson join "CBS Mornings" to discuss "Purpose," a six-time Tony-nominated ...

Harry Lennix plays husband to LaTanya Richardson Jackson in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Tony-nominated Broadway hit ‘Purpose,’ ...

Novelist Percival Everett won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “James”, a reimagining of Huckleberry Finn told from the perspective of an enslaved man, while playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins won ...

By Michael Paulson Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was getting ready for his first Met Gala on Monday afternoon when he got the news: his latest play, “Purpose,” which is now on Broadway, won this year ...

This is the first Pulitzer win for Jacobs-Jenkins, who was previously named a finalist for his 2017 play Everybody. His previous plays have included Appropriate, which won the 2024 Tony Award for ...

Paul Tazewell and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins are continuing their run of award-winning projects after the celebrated creatives both earned nominations for this year’s highly anticipated Tony Awards.

“Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award nominations last week. Everett’s ...

“Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award nominations last wee ...

“Purpose”, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within, won for drama. It also earned six Tony Award nominations last wee ...

First the Time 100 and then the Tony nominations, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has reached yet another significant milestone in his career winning the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Purpose.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a playwright and a professor in the practice of theater and performance studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his play ...