Andrea Agosto

Purpose (2026)
Theater by La Jolla Playhouse/Delicia Turner Sonnenberg Azizah Houston The most awarded play of 2025 is coming to the Playhouse. Fresh from winning the Tony Award for Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award, Purpose is “a thumping, riveting, guns-blazing, major new American play” (NY Daily News). For decades, the influential Jasper family of Chicago has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, celebrity pastors and congressmen. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced to reckon with decades of secrets and unresolved tensions that threaten to topple their empire. As The New York Times said: “Purpose showcases Jacobs-Jenkins’ vivid language, spitfire dialogue and sweeping sense of American history… you may have trouble catching your breath from laughing so hard.” This West Coast premiere production is led by celebrated San Diego director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. “Unstoppably fierce, funny and ruthless.” New York Post “Hilarious and explosive” The Washington Post “The dialogue is humorous, punchy and sharp… allowing the audience to lean in as all of the Jaspers’ dirty laundry is laid bare.” Variety “Of our current crop of prolific playwrights, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins must rank as the most formally unpredictable, as well as, perhaps, the most audacious. Jacobs-Jenkins is a risk-taker, no question. And he sure can write.” New York Stage Review

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