The Emmy-winning writer-actor Lena Waithe (“The Chi,” “Master of None”) recently sat down with the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, “Purpose,” now up for six Tony Awards including best play. Waithe was interested in talking through all the ways that Jacobs-Jenkins’ drama about a Black family in Chicago can be seen as a work in conversation with Lorraine Hansberry’s landmark 1959 play “A Raisin in the Sun.” The duo bonded over their shared reverence for Hansberry and picked apart the themes and ideas in “Raisin” that are refracted through a contemporary lens in “Purpose.”
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