
Contact: Matt Polk / Tom D'Ambrosio /
Nicolette Carcaldi / Colleen Dunn
THE STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION
PURPOSE
By Tony Award Winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Two-Time Award winner Phylicia Rashad
Previews Begin February 25, 2025
Opening Night March 2025
On Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater (240 West 44th St)
*For a Limited Engagement
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, PURPOSE is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.
The Broadway cast of PURPOSE will feature Two-time Tony Award nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson (To Kill a Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun), Harry Lennix (TV’s “The Blacklist,” Broadway’s Radio Golf), Steppenwolf ensemble member Jon Michael Hill (Broadway’s Pass Over, Superior Donuts, Netflix’s “A Man in Full”), Steppenwolf ensemble member and Co-Artistic Director Glenn Davis (off-Broadway’s Downstate, King James), Steppenwolf Ensemble member Alana Arenas (The Bluest Eye, TV’s “David Makes Man”), and Tony Award winner Kara Young (Purlie Victorious, The Cost of Living, Clyde’s).