La Jolla Playhouse presents: Purpose
May 12 @ 7:00 pm - June 7 @ 7:00 pm
The most awarded play of 2025 is coming to the Playhouse. Fresh from winning the Tony Award for Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award, Purpose is “a thumping, riveting, guns-blazing, major new American play” (NY Daily News).
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.
Use code FAMILY to take 20% off select performances (May 12 – 22, Tue – Fri performances)
Performance dates
First Look (previews)*: May 12 – May 16
Weeks 2 – 4: May 19 – Jun 7
First Look (previews)*: May 12 – May 16
Weeks 2 – 4: May 19 – Jun 7
