Coming
February 2025
From the playwright of “Appropriate” and the theatre behind “August: Osage County”
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of
Purpose
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed By Phylicia Rashad
★★★★
Absolutely not to be missed!
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is the white-hot writer of the moment – I was knocked out!
★★★★
A blistering Steppenwolf Production with
explosive, knee-buckling intensity.
About
From the Tony Award-winning playwright of Appropriate and directed by the two-time Tony Award-winning Phylicia Rashad comes Purpose.
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.