It sounds like a simple question, right? Well, it’s not always an easy answer. Sometimes, you need to spend a little time identifying your purpose in order to live your best life. Counselor Joel ...

We get purpose wrong. We glorify it as a distant summit—some big, audacious “Big-P Purpose” that we’re supposed to scale in order to validate our lives. This grand, elusive ideal is often ...

Even when “Purpose” briefly sags in Act 2, we are still invested. Set-ups don’t come much juicier. How does a revered national figure behave when reporters and cameras are not around?

in his engrossing if maddeningly overwritten play “Purpose,” now on Broadway in a production from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

In Appropriate, Jacobs-Jenkins’s plotting involves a little hand-waving — the money involved in a real-estate deal, for instance, comes out just right for maximal discord — and in Purpose ...

The mantra is clear: The ends justify the means. But when we talk about purpose—especially the kind that leads to happiness, health, and longevity—this model breaks down. Purpose, particularly ...

In his newest Broadway play, “Purpose,” directed by Tony Award-winning Phylicia Rashad, Jacobs-Jenkins showcases a very different family whose long-held secrets and dirty laundry are put on ...

By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic But instead of revolving around a white family negotiating their legacy within the annals of American history, Purpose centers a powerful Black political ...

But after much coffee-fueled introspection, I finally figured it out: I am a purpose-driven entrepreneur. A social entrepreneur. Honestly, it sounds a lot fancier than it actually is. Really ...

Epaulet is a menswear brand that makes all its clothing in Los Angeles, New Jersey, or Rochester. Its owner, Eva Kuhle, says Trump's tariff policies are too inconsistent to help US manufacturing ...

By Jesse Green You may have trouble catching your breath from laughing so hard during the first act of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s sophomore Broadway outing, “Purpose,” which opened Monday at ...