Purpose

Broadway audiences got a taste of playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's strong but delicious medicine in last season's revival of Appropriate. They'll get another gulp with this new family drama, which looks at the structural damage behind the pious facade of a prominent Black family. Stage and screen royal Phylicia Rashad directs a cast of six that includes four holdovers from the play's debut at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company last year—Harry Lennix, Jon Michael Hill, Alana Arenas and Glenn Davis—plus the formidable Latanya Richardson Jackson and the irresistable Kara Young.