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

Kara Young is blessed with the ability to jumpstart a scene the moment she steps on stage. This small but mighty actress ...

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 ...

"Purpose," a groundbreaking Broadway play directed by Phylicia Rashad, delves into Black political legacies and familial ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...