NEW YORK (AP) — The great playwright Arthur Miller rarely changed a word of his plays during rehearsals. The equally great Tennessee Williams rewrote furiously until he had to stop. Which model does ...

This Broadway season was the highest-grossing ever recorded with shows taking in nearly $2 billion. The popularity was driven by blockbusters and surprise additions like "Purpose" -- a family drama ...

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 ...

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 ...

Playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins made history at this year’s Tony Awards as the first Black playwright since 1987 to win for Best Play with his production “Purpose.” Set in Chicago, the Pulitzer Prize ...

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), on Sunday won his first Tony Award for the play ...

“Purpose,” a new show from “Appropriate” playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, will open on Broadway in the spring of 2025. Phylicia Rashad will direct the play, which is set to begin previews on Feb. 25 ...

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Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has made his television debut with a series adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's seminal 1979 sci-fi novel Kindred. Kindred tells the story of ...

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 ...