Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann offer Tony Awards analysis.

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

The new play directed by Phylicia Rashad follows the influential Jasper family, whose long-held secrets are laid bare during ...

The great Phylicia Rashad makes her Broadway directorial debut, with PURPOSE by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, opening tonight at ...

Jenkins could have written Broadway’s blistering “Purpose” and had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, ...

I assume Jacobs-Jenkins was hoping for a reaction like that, because much of the nearly mathematical pleasure of watching ...

Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic ...

This bombshell-littered house belongs to the Jaspers, a powerful black political dynasty whose controversies and scandals ...

Jenkins' family drama centered around a laugh-out-loud dinner from hell, opened at Second Stage's Hayes Theater on March 17.

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

Jenkins' "Appropriate" won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. The playwright could very well win a Tony this year for ...