Gloria
So, it's kind of difficult to talk about fight club without talking about fight club, but I'll try. For all but the last two minutes of Gloria 's first act, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins 's new play seems like a typical, dare I say trite, workplace comedy. Reminiscent of Leslye Hedland's Assistance , we find three assistants ( Ryan Spahn , Catherine Combs and Jennifer Kim ) and one intern ( Kyle Beltran , recently seen in The Fortress of Solitude ) at their cubes. They complain about their work (they are magazine editors' assistants), they complain about each other, they bond over the loss of a (semi) beloved pop star. A colleague from the fact-checking department (a great Michael Crane ) periodically stops by to ask the assistants to keep it down. And every now and then the assistants talk about or are briefly visited by the titular Gloria ( Jeanine Serralles ), a woman who works in copy and who threw a housewarming party the night before—a party that no one but De...