By Ronda Racha Penrice Following six Tony nominations and two wins, the Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama “Purpose is losing its onstage matriarch. LaTanya Richardson Jackson will perform with the original Broadway cast for the last time Sunday as the show heads toward the end of its run on Aug. 31. Brenda Pressley, who replaces her, has a long Broadway tenure that includes appearing in “Dreamgirls” and “Cats.” “Purpose,” the play by “Appropriate” playwright and Tony winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, borrows from the lives of civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson and other powerful Black figures to create a family drama set on
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