Mrs. Warren's Profession

George Bernard Shaw’s brilliant, intellectually fierce social drama 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' has graced the New York stage in various definitive, grand-scale classical revivals, most famously under the banner of the Theatre Guild and the Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed 2010 Broadway production at the American Airlines Theatre. The claustrophobic drawing-room narrative handles a sharp, textually raw look at institutional hypocrisies and economic exploitation, tracking Vivie Warren, a brilliant, independent young university graduate whose stable world collapses into an ideological war when she discovers her mother funded her education through brothel investments. The 2010 revival starred Cherry Jones and Sally Hawkins.