Breh wins a Tony (Oscars for Plays) for his play. First Black Playwright to win the award in 40 years

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“Purpose” Wins Big and Makes History at the 2025 Tony Awards

The drama received this year’s prize for Best Play

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Purpose has made history at the 2025 Tony Awards.

Written by 2024 Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Purpose has taken some of the evening's top prizes.

Jacobs-Jenkins, who won the Tony Award for best revival of a play for Appropriate just last year, has become the first Black playwright to win the Tony for Best Play since August Wilson took home the award in 1987 for Fences.

Purpose is not just your average family drama. The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows one evening with the Jaspers, a prominent Chicago household known for their influential history within Black American politics. But like all families, not everything is as it seems. When the youngest son returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend, the family is forced to face deep truths and challenge their ideologies. Directed by the legendary Phylicia Rashad, Purpose stars also LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Harry Lennix, Jon Michael Hill, Alana Arenas and Glenn Davis.

 

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Read "purpose" as Papoose at first.

Damn near fell out of my chair

 

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Read "purpose" as Papoose at first.

Damn near fell out of my chair