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| The cast of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Purpose in Chicago. Credit: Michael Brosilow |
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism. Spirited, hilarious and filled with intrigue, Purpose is an epic family drama from one of the country’s most celebrated voices.
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| (Top row) Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, Lisagay Hamilton, (Bottom row) Paul Alexander Nolan, Hattie Morahan, Andrea Martin and Jessica Frances Dukes join Season 3 of The Gilded Age. Credit: HBO |
Gilded Age 3rd Season Cast: Speaking of Phylicia Rashad, she will joined in the third season of HBO's The Gilded Age with a slew of additional New York theater actors. Emmy, SAG, and Tony nominee Bill Camp (Lincoln, The Night Of, Presumed Innocent), Emmy winner Merritt Wever (Unbelievable, Godless, Nurse Jackie), Tony winner Leslie Uggams (Roots, Deadpool), LisaGay Hamilton (The Dropout, Winning Time, The Practice), Paul Alexander Nolan (Water for Elephants, Bright Star), Hattie Morahan (Operation Mincemeat, Fool Me Once), Tony winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Pippin, Evil, My Big Fat Greek Wedding), and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark, Earth Abides) have all been cast in the third season of the HBO period drama.
They join new Season 3 cast members Rashad, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Victoria Clarke and Jordan Danica and original cast members Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Denée Benton, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Taissa Farmiga, Harry Richardson, Blake Ritson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Simon Jones, Debra Monk, Kristen Nielsen, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Kelli O'Hara, Jack Gilpin, Patrick Page, Ben Ahlers, and Michael Cerveris.
Here's a breakdown of their character descriptions:
BILL CAMP as JP Morgan, the world-famous investment banker who finds himself at odds with George Russell (Spector) over the future of the railroad industry.
MERRITT WEVER as Monica O’Brien, Bertha Russell’s (Coon) estranged sister who appears at a crucial time for the family.
LESLIE UGGAMS as Mrs. Ernestine Brown, Elizabeth Kirkland’s friend and a member of the Black elite community in Newport.
LISAGAY HAMILTON as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the famed Black suffragist who inspires Peggy (Denée Benton) to become involved in her cause, in spite of the dissenting opinions of those around her.
PAUL ALEXANDER NOLAN as Alfred Merrick, a dashing, wealthy New York businessman, who has all the hallmarks of the old money set – elegance, refinement and sophistication. The Russells invite him to dine at their home in the hopes of charming him into a business deal.
HATTIE MORAHAN as Lady Sarah Vere – Sister to the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb), Lady Sarah makes it clear that the Russells are not to her taste.
ANDREA MARTIN as Madame Dashkova, a medium who claims to be able to commune with the dead.
JESSICA FRANCES DUKES as Athena Trumbo, Dorothy (Audra McDonald)’s beloved first cousin and a part of an elite enclave of Black residents of Newport, Rhode Island, who is pleased to host Peggy (Benton) and is supportive of her writing career.
2024-25 Broadway/Off-Broadway/Awards Calendar
Fall 2024
Sept. 6--Table 17 (MCC Theater)
Sept. 12--The Roommate (Booth)
Sept. 12--Counting and Cracking (Public Theater/NYU Skirball)
Fall 2024
Sept. 6--Table 17 (MCC Theater)
Sept. 12--The Roommate (Booth)
Sept. 12--Counting and Cracking (Public Theater/NYU Skirball)
Sept. 12--Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song (Theater555)
Sept. 12--Our Class (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Sept. 22--The Beacon (IRT)
Sept. 22--Age Is a Feeling (Vineyard)
Sept. 24--Ghost of John McCain (Soho Playhouse)
Sept. 29--The Hills of California (Broadhurst)
Sept. 30--MCNEAL (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 1--Yellowface (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Oct. 1--Good Bones (Public)
Oct. 8--Bad Kreyol (MTC/Signature Theatre) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 9--The Counter (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Oct. 10--Our Town (Barrymore)
Oct. 10--Deep History (Public)
Oct. 16--Hold On to Me Darling (Lortel)
Oct. 16--Vladimir (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Oct. 20--Sunset Boulevard (St. James)
Oct. 23--Left on Tenth (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 24--Romeo and Juliet (Circle in the Square)
Oct. 29--Another Shot (Signature Theater Center)
Nov. 7--Walden (Second Stage/Kiser)
Nov. 8--Gatz (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Nov. 11--What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Studio 54)
Nov. 12--Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco)
Nov. 14--Tammy Faye (Palace)
Nov. 14--King Lear (Kenneth Branagh Theater Company/The Shed)
Nov. 19--Swept Away (Longacre)
Nov. 21--Death Becomes Her (Lunt-Fontanne)
Nov. 21--The Blood Quilt (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Nov. 22--The Merchant of Venice (CSC/Arlekin Players) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Nov. 26--The Dead, 1904 (IRT/American Irish Historical Society)
Babe (New Group/Signature Center)
We Live in Cairo (NYTW)
Winter 2024-25
Dec. 4--Annie (Theater at Madison Square Garden) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Dec. 12--Cult of Love (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 16--Eureka Day (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Dec. 19--Gypsy (Majestic)
Jan. 23--English (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
Feb. 13--Redwood (Nederlander)
Feb. 20--Liberation (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Antiquities (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theater)
Curse of the Starving Class (New Group/Signature Center)
Dakar 2000 (MTC/City Center Stage I)
A Knock on the Roof (NYTW)
Sumo (Ma-Yi Theater/Public)
2024-25
My Son's a Queer (But What Can You Do?)
Romeo and Juliet w.Tom Holland/Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (?)
Smash
Spring 2025
March 10--Ghosts (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
March 25--Old Friends (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman) (previews begins opening TBA)
March--Wine in the Wilderness (CSC)
Mid-March--Purpose (Hayes)
April 5--BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical (Broadhurst)
April 6--The Last Five Years (Hudson)
April 21--Floyd Collins (LCT/Vivian Beaumont)
April 22--Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Marquis)
April 24--The Pirates of Penzance (Roundabout/Todd Haimes Theater)
May--Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO/Transport Group)
Bowl EP (Vineyard Theater/National Black Theater)
Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. (Public)
Glengarry Glen Ross
Good Night and Good Luck
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (New Group/Signature Center)
Lights Out: Nat "King" Cole (NYTW)
Lunar Eclipse (Second Stage/Kiser)
Othello
The Picture of Dorian Gray (???)
Show Boat (Target Margin/NYU Skirball)
2025
Sugar Daddy
We Had a World (MTC/City Center Stage I)
Summer 2025
Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Delacorte)
2025-26
The Queen of Versailles
Fall 2025
Initiative (Public)
Waiting for Godot
2026
Hello, I'm Dolly
Future--Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Just in Time; The Karate Kid; La La Land; Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Soul Train; Studio 54; Working Girl.
2024-25 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
Cult of Love
Good Night and Good Luck
The Hills of California
Job
Left on Tenth
MCNEAL
Oh, Mary!
Purpose
The Roommate
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
New Musicals
Boop! The Betty Boop Musical
Death Becomes Her
Maybe Happy Ending
Old Friends
Redwood
Smash
Swept Away
Tammy Faye
What a Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
Play Revivals
English
Eureka Day
Glengarry Glen Ross
Home
Othello
Our Town
Romeo and Juliet
Yellow Face
Musical Revivals
Floyd Collins
Gypsy
The Last Five Years
Once Upon a Mattress
The Pirates of Penzance
Sunset Boulevard
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