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

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

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

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

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

LaTanya Richardson Jackson joined The View on Thursday to discuss starring in the new play Purpose, her new Sardi's portrait, ...

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

The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior (Glenn Davis) instead tarnished it when, as a state senator, he was convicted of ...

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

Sam Eckmann: Since we've both seen Purpose, the new drama from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, I think it's time we assess how it might fit into the race. The play follows an ...