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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Broadway season was the highest-grossing ever recorded with shows taking in nearly $2 billion. The popularity was driven by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paulson, who won a Tony Award in 2024 for her performance in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' earlier play, 'Appropriate,' writes: "There are few things of which I am certain in this life. We don’t deserve ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...