Mary Beth Peil, Caroline Aaron, Noah Galvin, Chip Zien, and Peter Maloney in Jake Brasch's The Reservoir , directed by Shelley Butler at Atlantic Theater. Photo: Ahron Foster. Jake Brasch’s The Reservoir  tells the story of a charmingly self-deprecating, openly gay NYU theater student named Josh who is a chronically relapsing drunk. Josh wakes up after a blackout near his home in Denver, doesn’t know how he got there, and is reluctantly taken in by his fed-up, divorced mother

Aigner Mizzelle (Lil) and Okieriete Onaodowan (Big) in Ngozi Anyanwu's The Monsters at Manhattan Theatre Club's NY City Center Stage II. Photo: Christian Heino. Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Monsters is a poignant and muscular two-hander about a Black brother and sister, estranged for 16 years, who reconcile over intensive training in MMA fighting. It’s a sweet play, directed by the author at MTC’s City Center, written in a spare, mellifluous vernacular that fits well with its athlet

Karan Brar as Maneesh and Brandon Flynn as Jonah in Matthew Libby's Data , directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Lucille Lortel Theatre. Photo: T. Charles Erickson. At the risk of sounding smug, let me say: I have been yowling, since the early days of the internet, to anyone who would listen, about the dangers of relinquishing our personal data and privacy to tech companies. In all that time, the most demoralizing part of my campaign has been the generational divide in who would listen.