Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Elias Williams/For The Washington Post) NEW YORK — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was anxiously amused about how he would be portrayed in ...

Jacobs-Jenkins has long articulated an especially vivid self-awareness. In his breakthrough “ An Octoroon,” the narrator is a Black playwright named BJJ who paints himself in whiteface and tells the ...