PERFORMANCE DATES
Begins March 2027
WHERE
Hayes Theater
HAYES THEATER / BROADWAY
GLORIA
BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
DIRECTED BY EVAN CABNET
In the cutthroat offices of a prestigious New York City magazine, a group of low-level employees frantically try to claw their way up the corporate ladder. Ruthless and driven, they’re willing to do almost anything to get ahead — even as their once-glamorous industry collapses around them. With sharp, cutting wit, Gloria expertly skewers the absurd, dog-eat-dog world of early-career professional life in the 2010s. From two-time Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, Purpose), one of the most astonishing and original voices of our time, comes a biting — and ultimately shocking — dark comedy about how far people will go to satisfy their ambition. Second Stage Artistic Director Evan Cabnet directs this “whip-smart” (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize finalist play in its Broadway premiere.
Second Stage Theater’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Season is supported by a grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
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(s) Student Matinee
*Across the Boards — Join members of the creative team for a discussion following the performance.
(i) Insider's Night — An exclusive event for 2ST Subscribers. Join us one hour before for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and intimate discussion with one of the show’s designers.
OC Open Captioned Performance — Text is displayed at the side of the stage in real time, including dialogue and sound effects from the production.
AD Audio Described Performance — Using special audio equipment, commentary and narration is provided during the performance, guiding the listener through the show with descriptions of scenes, costumes, etc. in between dialogue or songs.
BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a writer and theatre artist whose plays include Purpose, Appropriate, The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody, War, Gloria, Appropriate, An Octoroon and Neighbors. He is a Professor in the Practice at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He has been the recipient of two Tony awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.
DIRECTED BY EVAN CABNET
In his first season as Artistic Director of Second Stage Theater, Evan Cabnet produced the world premiere of Talene Monahon’s Pulitzer finalist, Meet the Cartozians, as well as Tony-nominated productions of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime and Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw. As Artistic Director of LCT3, Cabnet produced Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over (Lortel Award, Best Play), Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Marys Seacole, Aya Ogawa’s The Nosebleed, Bryna Turner’s At The Wedding and Bull in a China Shop, and Miranda Rose Hall’s Plot Points in Our Sexual Development, among many others. As a director, he has collaborated with Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Gloria), Stephen Sondheim (Do I Hear a Waltz? Encores!), Helen Edmundson (Therese Raquin), Donald Margulies (The Model Apartment), David West Read (The Performers, The Dream of the Burning Boy), Kenneth Lin (Warrior Class), Christopher Shinn (Teddy Ferrara), Theresa Rebeck (Poor Behavior), and Liz Meriwether (The Mistakes Madeline Made, Oliver Parker), among others. He is a former Artistic Associate at the Roundabout Theatre Company, a founding member of the Ars Nova Writers Group, and a former Resident Artist with Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater. He is a trustee of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and has guest lectured about developing new work at Juilliard, NYU, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern. His first book, DIRECTING NEW PLAYS, was published in October 2024.