PURPOSE

About the show

For decades, the influential Jasper family of Chicago has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, celebrity pastors and congressmen. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced to reckon with decades of secrets and unresolved tensions that threaten to topple their empire. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Purpose is "a thumping, riveting, guns-blazing, major new American play" (NY Daily News). This West Coast premiere production is led by celebrated San Diego director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg.