Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Elias Williams/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was anxiously amused about how he would be portrayed in ...

This story was originally published in May 2025. On June 8, Purpose won the Tony Award for Best New Play, as well as the award for Best Featured Actress. “When I turned 35,” he said, “I had an almost ...

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 ...

Jacobs-Jenkins has long articulated an especially vivid self-awareness. In his breakthrough “ An Octoroon,” the narrator is a Black playwright named BJJ who paints himself in whiteface and tells the ...