Tony Award® Winner Best Play
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

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NOW EXTENDED THROUGH AUGUST 31ST

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

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Naveen Kumar, Theater Critic

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

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Patrick Healy, Deputy Opinion Editor

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

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Salamishah Tillet, Contributing Critic at Large

“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.”

Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times

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

Lena Waithe

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

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“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.”

Sarah Paulson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“A thrilling Battle Royale… A hilarious war of all against all. The superb Steppenwolf ensemble gives Bravura performances.”

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“A feast of jaw-dropping tea — and riveting food for thought. A densely packed powder keg of a play.”

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“Purpose channels everything from August Wilson to Tennessee Williams. It is a sparring match, crackling with sharp punchlines, pulling us into an all-out brawl”

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

financial-times

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

vogue

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

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

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About The Show

Purpose, the gripping and hilarious new drama from Tony Award winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, is “a thumping, riveting, guns-blazing, major new American play” (NY Daily News).

This electrifying production is an intimate and intriguing behind-the-scenes look at the influential Jasper family. And like all families, there are cracks beneath the surface. When the son returns home with an uninvited friend, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith, and its legacy.


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TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE
Monday – Saturday: 10am – 8pm
Sunday: 12pm – 6pm (or eve curtain)

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Each day the box office is open, beginning at 10:00am and Sundays at 12:00pm, a limited amount of rush tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Rush tickets are sold day-of at the box office for $45 (inclusive of fees).

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Theatre Info

240 w 44th Street
New York, NY 10036

RUN TIME
PURPOSE runs 2 hours and 50 minutes, including one 15 minute intermission.