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Branden Jacobs Jenkins

the thee-ay-ter Sept. 12, 2023

Broadway’s Getting AppropriateSarah Paulson, Corey Stoll, and Natalie Gold will star in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Broadway debut.

By Jason P. Frank
theater review June 5, 2023

Death Comes to the Reunion in The ComeuppanceHigh-school friends, pregaming with jungle juice and angst.

By Jackson McHenry

a long talk Dec. 13, 2022

‘Our Task Was to Expand the Universe of the Book’After 43 years, Octavia Butler’s Kindred hits the screen. Showrunner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins awaits your critiques.

By E. Alex Jung
sci-fi Mar. 8, 2021

Another Octavia E. Butler Book Headed to TV With FX’s Kindred Pilot OrderWritten by Watchmen alum and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

By Halle Kiefer
Feb. 21, 2017

Theater Review: Everybody Is a 600-Year-Old Play Brought Up to the MomentBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, MacArthur Genius, reworks one of the oldest known English-language plays.

By Jesse Green
theater June 17, 2015

Theater Review: Nothing, Then Too Much, in GloriaIt “toys with audience expectation.”

By Jesse Green
theater Mar. 13, 2015

Theater Review: The Wild and Wily An Octoroon“A feast, overcatered but unlikely to be forgotten.”

By Jesse Green
stage dive Mar. 16, 2014

Theater Review: Appropriate Explains Too Much and Says Too Little“Jacobs-Jenkins wants things both ways and ends up with neither.”

By Jesse Green