For Tony Award Winner Kara Young, ‘Purpose’ Is History-making. Kristen Tauer. Thu, June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM UTC. 6 min read. Kara Young is on a roll.

Kara Young recently starred on Broadway as ‘Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins’ in Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch, for which she won a 2024 Tony Award for Best ...

Purpose, nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play and, for Young, Best Featured Actress in a Play. Purpose was recently extended eight weeks and now runs through August 31 at Broadway ...

She wore a dramatic black and white menswear-inspired look for the occasion and jewelry so good that it deserved its own Tony ...

On Sunday night, Young won her second Tony Award for best actress in a featured role in a play for the show Purpose, in which she plays Aziza, a social worker from Harlem. The victory marked the first ...

Kara Young, right, pictured at the 2025 Met Gala, and at a Tony nominees luncheon with her dad, Klay. Family and community are what keep her centered amid all the chaos of this current Tony season.

He urged Tony viewers to support regional theaters; “Purpose” was nurtured in Chicago. Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years — became the ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 08: Kara Young accepts the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play award for “Purpose” onstage during The 78th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City ...

Kara Young made history as the first Black performer to win a Tony Award two years in a row. But that's not all—this year's red carpet was full of standout fashion moments, Black excellence, and ...

Kara Young — the first Black female actor to be nominated for a Tony Award in four consecutive years — became the first Black person to win two Tonys consecutively with the featured actress in ...

Kara Young accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a play for "Purpose" during the 78th annual Tony Awards on Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — The best new play trophy at Sunday's Tony Awards went to "Purpose," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family exposing hypocrisy and pressures ...