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LaTanya Richardson Jackson Brings a New Grande Dame to Broadway in Purpose
“I have not tried to infuse her historically with my life, but it is so me.”
She’s freshly recovered from gallbladder surgery a few weeks prior, and her husband, Samuel L. Jackson, is in New Orleans, running lines for his surprise cameo in Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show. She refers to herself as a “blue-collar actress” (she also directed Samuel onstage in The Piano Lesson),but here she is preparing to introduce a new grande dame to Broadway: Claudine Jasper, the matriarch of Purpose, the latest work of irreverence and soul-searching by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Nazareth (Jon Michael Hill), a professional photographer who abandoned divinity school in the final semester of his studies, narrates the action, which takes place as a winter storm approaches.
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