THE Pulitzer Award considered the greatest honor of journalism, announced the winners of the 2025 edition on Monday (5). Despite having 15 awards dedicated to journalism, literature and music, the ceremony also highlights the Drama Pulitzer Award granted to a work of the theater.
The category recognizes a theatrical work staged in the United States during the previous calendar year and preferably original that addresses American life. The first statuette was delivered in 1918 to “Why Marry?” piece written by Jesse Lynch Williams and has had the musical “Hamilton” by Lin-Manuel Miranda as the big winner in 2016.
This year, the piece “Purpose” of the American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins He took the prize home. “A piece about the complex dynamics and legacy of an Afro-American upper-class Afro-American family, whose patriarch was a key figure in the civil rights movement,” in which Pulitzer classifies as a skillful drama and comedy mixing as different generations define the inheritance.
In addition to recognition in the prize, the play was nominated for 6 Tony Awards categories, considered the main award of the theater, including the appointment of best play, one of its main categories.
The play that is playing at Helen Hayes Theater in New York, United States still faced “Oh, Mary!” Cole School and “The Ally”, by Itamar Moses.
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This content was originally published in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose” wins drama Pulitzer Award on CNN Brazil.
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