NEW YORK (AP) — Don't bother asking Kara Young which one of her roles is her favorite. They're all her favorite. “Every single time I’m doing a show, I feel like it is the most important thing on the planet,” she says. “I don't have a favorite. It’s like this: Every, every single project has held its own weight.”

Right now, the weighty project on her mind is Broadway's celebrated “Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ drawing-room drama at the Helen Hayes Theater about an accomplished Black family revealing its hypocrisy and fault lines during a snowed-in gathering. “There’s so much in this play,” says Young, who plays an outsider who witnesses the implosion. “Like a lot of the great writers, he creates these universes in a line or the space between the words.”

A tense family gathering “Purp

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