The older son, named for his father, is the more obviously wayward. Raised to uphold Solomon’s political legacy, Junior ...

Purpose officially opened last night, March 18, at the Helen Hayes Theater, featuring Phylicia Rashad making her Broadway ...

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

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins follows the award-winning "Appropriate" with another rousing family showdown in this rousing drama.

Sean Baker got his fairy-tale ending, investing his speeches with meaningful shout-outs on an Oscar night that celebrated ...

Anti-knife campaigner Pastor Lorraine Jones, whose son Dwayne, 20, was stabbed to death on the Angell Town estate in 2014, ...

He has been nominated numerous times for Tonys, Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume ... and she had seen her son among giants in the industry. “He said, ‘It’s OK,’” his mother ...

Helen Hayes won for her portrayal of Madelon Claudet, a French woman who turns to a life of crime to support her son after she is wrongly imprisoned. Marie Dressler's award-winning performance as Min ...

The next instancewas just three years later when Helen Hayes won for The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1933). The plot is similar to Street Angel, but it replaces a mother with a son. The 1940s saw two more ...

The expectations of genre may at once signify an imposing edifice that a playwright might stretch themselves to fulfill, and simultaneously, a familiar model to which they can retreat for comfort and ...