"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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"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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"Purpose is a big swing, but that’s what it takes to get a big hit."
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"...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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"“Purpose” doesn’t sustain the same level of excitement in its longer second act"
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"A whirlwind of a play, the cast delivers incredible performances"
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""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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"I howled all the way through Jacobs-Jenkins’ clever and venomous spin on the story"
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