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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 – Kara Young makes any show a must-see event. In 2021, the ebullient newcomer made her Broadway debut in Lynn Nottage’s “Clyde’s,” bringing spiky wit and desperation to a ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...