“Hilarious and Explosive, PURPOSE is a Densely Packed Powder Keg of a Play.                             Is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins the best playwright in America?”

“My favorite Broadway show of the season. A play that meets our national moment.“

“It is brilliant and funny and serious and complex and powerful.”

“PURPOSE showcases Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ vivid language, spitfire dialogue and sweeping sense of American history.”

“Any concise description of Purpose is bound to fail because the play is so multifarious and complex. Jacobs‑Jenkins has written a domestic drama in the epic tradition of Death of a Salesman, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and August: Osage County.”

“Purpose is bringing us into a new generation, bringing us into the future.”

★★★★ (out of 4)
“Unstoppably fierce, funny and ruthless. The highlight of the Broadway season.”

“There are few things of which I am certain in this life. We don’t deserve dogs. Oreo ice cream is superior to strawberry. And Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is the playwright of our time.”

“A thumping, riveting, guns-blazing, major new American play. I was knocked out.”

“A thrilling battle royale…a hilarious war of all against all. The superb Steppenwolf ensemble gives bravura performances.”

“A funny, heady, irreverent excavation into the psyche of an American family.”

“The Tony Awards have a new front runner for Best New Play. I need, and want, to see it again.”

★★★★★ (out of 5)
“Purpose is a big swing. But that’s what it takes to get to a big hit.”

★★★★★ (out of 5)
“Dialed-to-eleven intensity. As emotionally bruising as it is darkly funny.”

“A merciless dissection of hypocrisy — You may have trouble catching your breath from laughing so hard.”