Purpose Tickets

Get Purpose tickets and see the newest play from Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who shocked audiences last season with his thrilling Broadway debut, Appropriate. Two-time Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad, known for her starring role in The Cosby Show and stage performances in A Raisin in the Sun and Skeleton Crew, directs this epic family drama, which comes straight from Chicago following a celebrated run at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which originated the Pulitzer Prize-winning August: Osage County. Purpose tickets will be available soon on New York Theatre Guide.

Experience Purpose on Broadway, a show “absolutely not to be missed,” the Chicago Tribune wrote. “Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is the white-hot writer of the moment; I was knocked out.” The play at Steppenwolf received a four-star review also in the Chicago Sun-Times, who said this was a “blistering Steppenwolf Production with explosive, knee-buckling intensity.”

Starting performances in February at the Hayes Theater, Purpose is a New York premiere tracing the storied legacy of the Jasper family. For decades, this influential family has left their mark on Black politics and culture. Its members are Civil Rights leaders, pastors, and congressmen. However, all families have their secrets sitting just under the shiny surface. When the youngest son of the family returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend, the family is forced to reckon with its faith, politics, and legacy of Black radicalism.

Hilarious, brilliant, and providing no easy answers, Purpose is a bracing new work from one of the country’s most celebrated playwrights. Rashad brings the production, with a top-notch lineup of designers, to New York City this winter. Audiences who loved the fiery dynamics at play in Appropriate will surely appreciate the similarities in this startling Broadway production. Don’t miss Jacobs-Jenkins’ latest, and tickets to Purpose will be on New York Theater Guide soon.