NEW YORK—In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new comedy/drama “Gloria,” several low echelon editorial assistants at an unnamed Manhattan cultural magazine are spending a typical day at work. All appears calm and relatively stress free.
But a harrowing event at the end of Act 1—a tragedy in fact—brings about a sea change in everyone’s behavior.

(L-R) Jennifer Kim, Catherine Combs, and Kyle Beltran appear in "Gloria," a story about making it in the publishing world, no matter the cost. Carol Rosegg