Gloria–a searing look at the workplace
Gloria (Foss Curtis) is the office outcast. Every office has one. In Profile Theatre‘s production of the Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play Gloria, the title character periodically schlumps [...]
Elegance and Irony
In 1834, 14-year-old Afong Moy (Barbie Wu) arrives in New York City from China’s Guangzhou Province. Sold as chattel by her family, she will perform in a museum to paying gawkers. She will [...]
Good twin, bad twin
As with most situations in United States society of the 1950s, meritocracy influenced every aspect of life, especially when it came to females. One was either a good girl and deserving of the [...]
The road to Hell
La Ruta, in Spanish, means “the route”. In Isaac Gomez‘s new play La Ruta, it could well mean “the road to Hell”. For the residents of Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican [...]
A dance with grief
When Anna (Jen Rowe), an unmarried, first grade schoolteacher, is diagnosed with the fictitious Acquired Toilet Disease (ATD), presumably contracted from an elementary school toilet seat, what on [...]
500 units…and mayhem!
Forty floors. Five hundred apartments. Seven hundred residents, give or take. All the amenities…. Somewhere in the bowels of this fancy, big city high-rise, in an inauspicious laundry room, [...]
1984 – ‘It’s not easy to become sane’
Winston Smith (Chris Harder) sits alone in a room rewriting Party history, deleting characters from tomes at the Ministry of Truth as they are disgraced or executed. The year is 1984. Everywhere [...]