The play won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2025.

"Purpose," a powerful Broadway family drama about legacy and faith, took home two awards at last month's Tonys. The man behind it, playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, spoke to CBS News. Ozzy Osbourne ...

Pictured (clockwise from left) Harry Lennix, ensemble members Alana Arenas and Glenn Davis, Tamara Tunie, Ayanna Bria Bakari and ensemble member Jon Michael Hill (Photo courtesy of Steppenwolf Theatre ...

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NEW YORK — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was anxiously amused about how he would be portrayed in this profile. Would I mention that twice when we met at the Hayes Theater, in the days after the playwright’s ...

“Oh, Mary!” is poised to have a big night at the Tony Awards on Sunday. A campy melodrama by alt comic Cole Escola, the play conjures to the stage a vision of Mary Todd Lincoln as a harridan and drunk ...

Cole Escola, Lynn Nottage and others choose the plays that define contemporary theater. By Juan A. Ramírez Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, ...

Everett’s Pulitzer cemented 'James' as 2024’s top-selling and most celebrated US literary novel, accelerating the 68-year-old’s remarkable rise after decades of obscurity. Photo: AP Percival Everett's ...

NEW YORK: Percival Everett’s novel “James,” his radical reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the enslaved title character, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction ...

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