Purpose (Broadway)
Purpose (Broadway)
Ends Aug 2025 2h 35m NYC: Midtown W
94% 938 reviews
94%
(938 Ratings)
Positive
98%
Mixed
2%
Negative
0%
Members say
Great acting, Funny, Absorbing, Intense, Delightful

About the Show

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Jasper family's drama unfolds in this Tony-nominated play.

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Critic Reviews (16)

The New York Times
March 17th, 2025

"Deeply imagined and grave beneath its yucks, it unspools like a brilliant sitcom. Then, also like a sitcom, it jumps the shark."
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New York Theatre Guide
March 17th, 2025

"Purpose is a daring dramatic vivisection of the fictional Jasper family... Director Phylicia Rashad has assembled an A-plus cast... [it] buzzes with rich ideas about sons and fathers and the burdens of legacy, sexuality, and authenticity."
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Time Out New York
March 17th, 2025

"Purpose is a big swing, but that’s what it takes to get a big hit."
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New York Magazine / Vulture
March 17th, 2025

"...much of the nearly mathematical pleasure of watching Purpose lies in watching a top-tier craftsman set up and then launch one long domino chain of familial discord."
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The Wall Street Journal
March 17th, 2025

"“Purpose” doesn’t sustain the same level of excitement in its longer second act"
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Variety
March 17th, 2025

"A whirlwind of a play, the cast delivers incredible performances"
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The Washington Post
March 17th, 2025

""It’s one of several that the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins deploys to gasps and guffaws...a densely packed and blistering powder keg of a play about (among other things) legacy, faith, corruption and the limits of desire.""
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New York Post
March 17th, 2025

"I howled all the way through Jacobs-Jenkins’ clever and venomous spin on the story"
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