Miss Kim

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There's no doubt there are dark histories people need to reveal in order to get on with living, but those stories are best told to psychotherapists or during 12-step meetings. It's in those rooms where Gina Kim and Ryan Tofil's
Miss Kim, now at the 45th Street Theatre, properly belongs.


Here, Kim is essentially playing herself in an elaborate confessional presentation of her troubled life as a Korean-American who was raised during the 1970s by parents who owned a 7-Eleven in Atlantic City. Kim was abused by an uncle from the age of seven or eight. Growing up as a young girl who didn't fit in to her Jersey shore surroundings, she fled to Korea to learn about her heritage. There, she [...]